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Carisa Dunn
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gothic fantasy | romance | SFF ☾
✎ The Bone Archive — a gothic fantasy romance
🖋 weaver of ache & wonder
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Carisa Dunn @carisadunn.bsky.social · Aug 16
THE CITY OF BRASS x A QUIET PLACE
A clairaudient girl in a city where silence means survival must uncover the truth behind her sister’s disappearance—before the ancient archive whispering inside her destroys her and her world from within.

#posterpit #F #LitAgents #GothicFantasy #WritingCommunity
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alizagame.bsky.social
I decided to make an #agentguide for my newest novel! Coming soon to a query inbox near you! #writingcommunity #querying
(Thank you @carisadunn.bsky.social or helping me format this!)
August 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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carisadunn.bsky.social
THE CITY OF BRASS x A QUIET PLACE
A clairaudient girl in a city where silence means survival must uncover the truth behind her sister’s disappearance—before the ancient archive whispering inside her destroys her and her world from within.

#posterpit #F #LitAgents #GothicFantasy #WritingCommunity
August 16, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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carisadunn.bsky.social
mini #agentsguide to THE BONE ARCHIVE
THE CITY OF BRASS x A QUIET PLACE
A gothic fantasy romance following a clairaudient girl and the heretical hunter as they battle silence and the monsters that feed off it.
🖤Currently has EDITOR interest 🖤
#litagents #gothicfantasy #fantasy #WritingCommunity
August 20, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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carisadunn.bsky.social
“In a world where silence is law, loving you was my loudest rebellion”.

CITY OF BRASS meets A QUIET PLACE
🕞 Monsters that hunt by sound
🖤 Slow Burn
🥀Beware the silence—it festers
❤️‍🔥 And never, ever fall for the heretical hunter
#posterpit #F #gothicfantasy
August 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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juliannejh.bsky.social
Mood board for my current #WIP #amdrafting #writingcommunity
August 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
carisadunn.bsky.social
mini #agentsguide to THE BONE ARCHIVE
THE CITY OF BRASS x A QUIET PLACE
A gothic fantasy romance following a clairaudient girl and the heretical hunter as they battle silence and the monsters that feed off it.
🖤Currently has EDITOR interest 🖤
#litagents #gothicfantasy #fantasy #WritingCommunity
August 20, 2025 at 4:43 AM
carisadunn.bsky.social
“In a world where silence is law, loving you was my loudest rebellion”.

CITY OF BRASS meets A QUIET PLACE
🕞 Monsters that hunt by sound
🖤 Slow Burn
🥀Beware the silence—it festers
❤️‍🔥 And never, ever fall for the heretical hunter
#posterpit #F #gothicfantasy
August 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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abigailwadlington.bsky.social
TANGLED X ANASTASIA

In a Swiss realm where people forget their worst memory, an orphan with Tourette's recruits a flirtatious thief to help restore her forgotten past.

🪻Found Family
🪻Disability & LGBTQ Rep
🪻Cozy Setting
🪻Swoony Romance

#PosterPitAG #PosterPit #F #YA
Titled “WHERE MEMORIES BLOSSOM”. Poster has a blue background featuring flowers. Art includes four young adults: one girl with braided black hair and blue eyes wearing an old-fashioned blue dress, one girl with black hair in a bun and a pink shirt, one boy with orange hair and a brown vest, and one boy with long brown hair and a red cape. YA COZY FANTASY. FOUND FAMILY. Directed by Abigail Wadlington and repped by Rebecca Williamson.
August 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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myleejmiller.bsky.social
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN x SIX OF CROWS

When four criminals are hired to steal an artifact from the most dangerous sea in their world, they'll do anything to take it for themselves - even betray each other.

#PosterPitQ #F #NA
The poster pitch for Mylee J. Miller's epic fantasy novel, BENEATH THE WAVES OF THE LABYRINTH SEA. Showcases Mylee J. Miller cosplaying as one of the main characters, the pirate Raelynd, and the tagline "Diver. Smuggler. Warlock. Pirate. Nobleman. And a traitor." and the words "An epic sea-heist fantasy by Mylee J. Miller".
August 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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alexisveenendaal.bsky.social
Title is TBD at the moment. I couldn't stand missing another pitch event, so here I am, just in it to avoid the FOMO :)

Announcement and release date coming soon(ish)!
#PosterPit #A #F
August 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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izzygraceauthor.bsky.social
SPARK OF THE EVERFLAME x THE CITY OF BRASS

Half-breed Aelia is forced to go on the run with a pure-blood mercenary, after revealing her powerful Runelight turns her into a hunted weapon for a war between realms

✨full ms with lit agent✨

#PosterPit #Q #F #R #NA #amquerying
A beam of light bursts from the silhouette of a woman. Title: Runelight Burning by Izzy Grace. Laurels: Forced proximity slow burn. Norse-inspired rune magic. Subverted chosen one trope. She's the anti-hero, he's the moral compass.
August 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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emiliayoung.bsky.social
📖🐦‍⬛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?

#PosterPit #PosterPitOS #PosterPitA #AG #OS
#A #F #R #DIS
#onsub #editors
Fake movie poster featuring the book "MARK OF A MAGPIE" Text reads: An adult fantasy by Emilia Young, On submission next week, Thief x Assassin, Forced Proximity, Morally Gray, Women's Wrongs Behind the text, there is a ship crossing the ocean, with two magpies flying high above it, it is unclear whether they're fighting or dancing.
August 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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lnmbeck.bsky.social
BABEL X THE WILL OF THE MANY

The God of Knowledge is dying, and all knowledge is withering alongside him.

📚 Dark Academia
📚 Found Family
📚 Twisty Plot
📚 Eerie
📚 Sacred Artefacts
📚 Gods & Curses

#PosterPit #Q #A #F
August 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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natalielouise83.bsky.social
THE SIRENS X THE BOOK OF WITCHING

✨ Editor interest ✨

🌊 Feminine rage
🌊 Twisty plot
🌊 Atmospheric setting
🌊 Orcadian folklore
🌊 Multi POV
🌊 Chronic illness rep (own voices)

#PosterPit #A #HF #Q
Text: THE BALLAD OF AGNES DAY (Querying now): When a storm wrecks his island’s passenger steamer, sparing only a girl believed to be one of the monstrous finfolk, a grieving musician must find out the truth about who she is before more of his people die. Longlisted for WriteMentor Award 2025, Top 5% Bridport Prize 2025, Top 100 Bath Novel Award 2024. Image: A young woman with long dark hair and a 1900s dress stands in front of a lighthouse on a cliff path. There is a blood spatter in the corner of the poster.
August 16, 2025 at 7:20 AM
carisadunn.bsky.social
THE CITY OF BRASS x A QUIET PLACE
A clairaudient girl in a city where silence means survival must uncover the truth behind her sister’s disappearance—before the ancient archive whispering inside her destroys her and her world from within.

#posterpit #F #LitAgents #GothicFantasy #WritingCommunity
August 16, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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carisadunn.bsky.social
STARLING HOUSE meets AN EMBER IN THE ASHES, set in a sensory perilous world like A QUIET PLACE.
🦴 Whispered secrets are currency
📚 The archive is listening
🕞 Monsters that hunt by sound
🖤 Slow Burn- never, ever fall for the heretical hunter
🥀Beware the silence—it festers
#QuestPit #F #agentsguide
August 6, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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jeward.bsky.social
Now #agented
THE GIRL WITH BLOOD ON HER DRESS
Eliza Graves wakes up with amnesia and can only speak French, a language she has never spoken before. Afraid someone wants her dead, she must trust the complete stranger everyone says is her husband.
#questpit #AG #A #T #EditorsGuide #EditorGuide #mswl
August 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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marcimarquez.bsky.social
Phantasma X Beetlejuice

🪦 Abusive mommies
🫀 Sapphic lovers
🔮 Coven politics
🌊 Haunted FL island resort
🖤 A chauvinistic demon, who may or may not make you laugh, but he’s also total self-centered and violent nut job 🚩
#QuestPit #Q #A #DF #H #R
August 6, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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chantaldanieli.bsky.social
THE GREAT ALONE x LOVE & OTHER WORDS

UNDER MY OWN MAKING, an upmarket women’s fiction with:

🌊 a scarred heiress
🌊 estranged childhood friends turned lovers
🌊 hard-earned slow-burn romance
🌊 toxic family
🌊 coastal small town
🌊 found family

#questpit #Q #A #R #WF
August 6, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social
With their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted and the attempts on their life getting more and more serious, Andy realizes they’re being stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they thought they’d left behind
#QuestPit #AG #YA
August 6, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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alissalindemann.bsky.social
Queen's Shadow X Shadow & Bone

"Ballad realized he wasn't the symbol of this revolution. He was the conduit, but that fire was hope. The symbol was always hope."

🌟Chronic Illness Rep
✨LGBTQ+
🌑Friends to Lovers
🪐Celestial Magic
🔥Alchemy

#questpit #q #sff #ya
Photo collage including: an image of snowy mountains with a clear view of the milky way above, a close up of flames and smoke, an image of a young white woman holding fire, an image of a young man with brown skin and long dark brown hair looking off in the distance, an image of a young white man with glasses writing at an antique desk, an image of old apothecary jars of varying sizes, and an image of someone's hands as they burn pieces of paper
August 6, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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menakawrites.bsky.social
SHEILD OF SPARROWS x ATTACK ON TITAN
❤️‍🔥 high heats
🏜️ desert setting
⚔️ magic weapons made of gods
🧠 PCOS, PMDD
🖤 shadow magic from animals
💕enemies to lovers and forbidden romance
🤎 POC cast
🏳️‍🌈 bi MC

#A #Q #Questpit #RF #Romantasy
August 6, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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millieabecassis.com
BLOOD IS LIFE. BONES ARE STRENGTH. FLESH IS CONTROL. SKIN IS DEATH.

🌹 Historical fantasy
🇫🇷 Belle Époque
🔥 Slow-burn sapphic romance
🩸 Body-based magic system
🗡️ Family feuds
🗝️ Gothic vibes

Coming 10/21/2025, a spellbinding debut brimming with intrigue & dangerous magic.

#QuestPit #P #A #F #HF #R
Cover of the book A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE, showing the silhouette of a woman over a red and gold background.
August 6, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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austinsgrace.bsky.social
🛤️ HOW TO COME HOME🛤️

An ex-Prohibition fixer and a small-town general store owner must overcome holding their pasts too present in order to build a future together in 1930s America.

PEAKY BLINDERS x 4 WINDS x CAT SEBASTIAN

#questpit #Q #amquerying #agentsguide
Slide 1: Cover slide for HOW TO COME HOME. A picture of a cornfield at dusk overlaid by the title and two portraits, one of a man with curly dark hair and wearing a dark green sweater and one of a man with pale blond hair, glasses, and wearing a jacket, vest, and tie. A brown frame with gilded accents encloses the slide. Slide 2: PITCH & COMPS After a decade behind bars, former Prohibition crime boss Nathan Gilliard takes a job working for a kindhearted single father at his small-town general store—but Nathan’s old life and older secrets aren’t easily left behind bars, and both men must confront the consequences of holding their pasts too present if they have any hope of building a future together. Comps presented are WE COULD BE SO GOOD by Cat Sebastian, INLAND by Téa Obreht, PEAKY BLINDERS, THE FOUR WINDS by Kristin Hannah, THE COMPANION by EE Ottoman, and the albums Hozier by Hozier, Laurel Hell by Mitski, and Babel by Mumford & Sons Slide 3:TROPES & THEMES A digital painting of two men, one with dark curly hair and wearing a maroon sweater, one with blond hair and wearing a shirt with suspenders and glasses around his neck, both seated at a piano. The tropes & themes read: - Queerness without a “coming out” narrative - Unconventional family structure - Grief doesn’t end, but it changes - Romance’s sweeping love story + histfic’s sweeping plot - Disability =/= disabling - Chekhov’s $100,000 - Who you are is not what you’ve been - 30+-year-old-protagonists - Complicated siblings, positive and negative Slide 4: EXCERPT A hotel. Anonymous people. People whose faces he’ll never see, whose names he’ll never know. Whose lives could be anything and everything, passing through Aurora on their way to California or New York or Canada. On the train, that had been the most beautiful thing in the world to Nathan, the anonymity. Now the horror of it grounds him to the sidewalk. Ten years he spent unknowable and resilient and caged, because the pain of knowing a different life and losing it cut so deep he didn’t know if he’d survive another bout of loss. And even in Blankenship he’d risked knowing, risked caring, and lost again. No lessons learned. More pieces of him to gather up, and Nathan’s hands too small to carry all of them. He can look in this ordinary little hotel all he likes. He’s burned too much, built too little to aspire to an ordinary life. No, all that awaits Nathan Gilliard is blood money and cold vengeance.
August 6, 2025 at 4:00 AM