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Carter Elise Key 🗝️ @carterscompendium.bsky.social · 11d
The future of Laerathor is written in the stars—or in blood. 🩸💫

✨ #questpit #a #f #q ✨

⚔️ forged family
👑 prophesied death
🤍 queer & disabled rep

The Bardaegan Trials have only just begun; is risking it all worth it? ♟️🥇
an agent’s guide to ODE: Fern and the nine realms of laerathor. carter elise key & lindsay vena. pitch - the future of laerathor is written in the stars—or in blood. with everything on the line, Fern, Halvard, and Airika must decide how they want to be remembered. the Bardaegan Trials have only just begun, and this time they come with a deadly cost. is risking it all worth it? stats: - word count: 104k - debut with series potential - multi-pov 3rd person narration genre/audience: - fantasy/adventure - new adult/adult - influenced by norse mythology representation: - queer (normalized in world) - disability (hard of hearing/deaf) comps/tropes: comp titles: blood beneath the snow by alexandra kennington the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon all of us villains by amanda foody & c.l. herman tropes: - forged family - slow burn - political intrigue - prophecies - magic has a cost - doomed by the narrative excerpt: with no warning, 1 of the prisoners from verwaringheim swings her head down, her fingers gripping the eave of the roof to keep her from toppling over completely. “hi there!” “good gods!” Halvard whips around to face an upside-down Juel. “you nearly scared my spirit free!” “does that mean your spirit still has cost? it should be worth something.” she looks concerned, tilting her head to the side and causing her curtain of hair to sway. he blinks. “that’s not—nevermind. nevermind. why are you upside-down?” “i’m not upside-down. you’re upside down,” she giggles. “its all about perspective, prince.” “juel, who’re ya talkin’ to?” the male prisoner grumbles from above. halvard’s face blanches. he covers his mouth with his free hand, hoping to communicate to juel not to reveal any specifics of who he is. she grins at him. “it’s prince halvard!”
Reposted by Carter Elise Key 🗝️
bardcorner.bsky.social
— RAVENSTONES
In a city where faith is law, a disciple of a death goddess must track down a magical killer, all while unravelling the dark secrets in his church and his past.

🩸Humorism based magic system
🗡️MLM romance
🩸Faith/Religion vs Science/Academia

#QuestPit #A #DF #H #W
November 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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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
carterscompendium.bsky.social
#questpit

if you’re somehow not convinced that the state of the US is in flames, this work is for you.

🩸 those in power are lying to you
🩸 cult of christian fundamentalism/white supremacy
🩸 feminine rage
🩸 reclamation & self discovery

#w #a #sf #h #lf 🔥
title card with pregnancy photoshoot as the backdrop - close image on a woman’s pregnant belly with two sets of hands cradling it text: V.E.S.S.E.L. / an agent’s guide / carter elise key / M.A. in creative writing thesis project pitch: evelyn innately trusts her husband, adam, to handle many of the front-facing affairs. he handles the money, he has a steady ipb, he goes golfing with his griends every Saturday. evie is happily in charge of ensuring thag their home is something to be proud of: clean, tidy, and presentable to the neighbours. despite the pleasant appearance, things are not what they seem in the adler household. adam desperately wants a son, and evie is trying her best to give him one. she’s already miscarried once, before she even knew she was pregnant, a crime equivalent to manalaughter in her tight-knit, christian fundamentalist hometown. twenty weeks into her second pregnancy, evie suddenly falls ill. she loses the baby, as well as her husband’s hope for a son. adam decides to admit evie for a three year treatment cycle to V.E.S.S.E.L., a program that assists women with fertility difficulties and ensures a safe, happy, and healthy pregnancy. or af least, that’s how their marketing team has decided to present their “treatments” to the public. comp titles: 01 - the handmaid’s tale by margaret atwood 02 - tender is the flesh by agustina bazterrica 03 - biography of x by catharine lacey 04 - “cat person” by kristen roupenian inspiration: when the story of adriana smith made national headlines, the 31-year-old Georgia woman who was declared brain dead but kept on life support to gestate a foetus (that didn’t even make it to term), i knew that we were, in short, in the bad place. this, combined with the systemic government takeover of women’s bodies in legislation, kindled a flame of outrage and painful empathy. i’ve aways had a fascination with the structure and execution of cults. i came into possession of the novel cultish: the language of fanaticism and decided that my next work needed to involve this somehow. those running the program and in positions of power all subscribe to the cult of white supremacy, a terrifying potential reality for the U.S. today. evelyn begins the story subscribing to this mindset. she’s known no other option. through her exposure to others in the program, as well as both witnessing and being the victim of senseless violence and oppression, she comes to understand that the way of thinking she’s grown up with is not good. she must come to terms with this realisation and grapple with her new sense of identity.
November 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
carterscompendium.bsky.social
The future of Laerathor is written in the stars—or in blood. 🩸💫

✨ #questpit #a #f #q ✨

⚔️ forged family
👑 prophesied death
🤍 queer & disabled rep

The Bardaegan Trials have only just begun; is risking it all worth it? ♟️🥇
an agent’s guide to ODE: Fern and the nine realms of laerathor. carter elise key & lindsay vena. pitch - the future of laerathor is written in the stars—or in blood. with everything on the line, Fern, Halvard, and Airika must decide how they want to be remembered. the Bardaegan Trials have only just begun, and this time they come with a deadly cost. is risking it all worth it? stats: - word count: 104k - debut with series potential - multi-pov 3rd person narration genre/audience: - fantasy/adventure - new adult/adult - influenced by norse mythology representation: - queer (normalized in world) - disability (hard of hearing/deaf) comps/tropes: comp titles: blood beneath the snow by alexandra kennington the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon all of us villains by amanda foody & c.l. herman tropes: - forged family - slow burn - political intrigue - prophecies - magic has a cost - doomed by the narrative excerpt: with no warning, 1 of the prisoners from verwaringheim swings her head down, her fingers gripping the eave of the roof to keep her from toppling over completely. “hi there!” “good gods!” Halvard whips around to face an upside-down Juel. “you nearly scared my spirit free!” “does that mean your spirit still has cost? it should be worth something.” she looks concerned, tilting her head to the side and causing her curtain of hair to sway. he blinks. “that’s not—nevermind. nevermind. why are you upside-down?” “i’m not upside-down. you’re upside down,” she giggles. “its all about perspective, prince.” “juel, who’re ya talkin’ to?” the male prisoner grumbles from above. halvard’s face blanches. he covers his mouth with his free hand, hoping to communicate to juel not to reveal any specifics of who he is. she grins at him. “it’s prince halvard!”
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 AM
carterscompendium.bsky.social
its recruitment szn!

my fave parts abt camp fairwood:

🤝 friendly competition
💕 welcoming vibes!
🌱 green meadows cabin <3
🧠 learning abt everyone’s kickass projects
🍾 celebrating together!
✨ weekly cabin updates

DM for an invite link — i promise u won’t regret it!!
September 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
carterscompendium.bsky.social
officially halfway thru ode’s first round of edits 🥳

• down 17k words
• added a new chapter 👀
• adjusted pacing to be more consistent

#editing
August 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
carterscompendium.bsky.social
🏰 ODE: FERN AND THE NINE REALMS OF LAERATHOR 🏰

Nine realms. Ten competitors. One king, fated to die, who insists on overseeing the competition which will determine his successor.

How will this unique round of the Bardaegan Trials end?

#posterpitw #f #na
Castle looming over a beach. “ODE: Fern and the Nine Realms of Laerathor” “A Key & Vena Production” “12.2025” “hitting query trenches soon"
August 16, 2025 at 7:15 AM
carterscompendium.bsky.social
#posterpitw #f #na

👑 ODE: FERN AND THE NINE REALMS OF LAERATHOR 👑

⚔️ What’s your idea of vengeance? Fern thinks she’s got a pretty good guess, but when those beliefs are tested, they may just crumble under the pressure.

[ hitting query trenches dec 2025 ]
young woman with a sword. ‘ODE: Fern and the Nine Realms of Laerathor’ at the top of the poster, overlaid with the sword. to the woman’s right: “Carter Elise Key & Lindsay Vena” “What is your idea of vengeance?” At the bottom: “Coming soon to the query trenches” then, the cast of characters: “Fern Riis. Halvard Jostad. Airika Falk. Biggs Stigandr. Brendell Falk. Quinby Brodbeck. Ernaline Gisil. Ygor Wistirgaard. Caxton Rask. Juel Soelberg. Torben Ahlstrom. Lumi Hartvigsen. Eostre Dal."
August 16, 2025 at 6:15 AM
carterscompendium.bsky.social
🌱 ODE: FERN AND THE NINE REALMS OF LAERATHOR 🌱

#posterpitw #f #na

The chance of a lifetime— some might even kill for it. With everything on the line, Fern, Halvard, and Airika have to decide how they want to be remembered. Everyone wants something, but is risking it all worth it? ⚔️
Young blonde woman in a field with the words “ODE: Fern and the Nine Realms of Laerathor” behind her in the sky. “magic infused world” and “doomed by fate” are on either side of her. At the bottom: “Carter Elise Key & Lindsay Vena” “Coming soon to the query trenches"
August 16, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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shiningcrobat.bsky.social
My QueerPit 2025 pitches thread!
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shiningcrobat.bsky.social Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · Aug 15
Legends & Lattes✖️When the Moon Hits Your Eye
👀multi-POV
🌈gay, aro & trans MCs + sapphic, NB, gay, bi & polyam POVs
🎲TTRPG inspired
✉️epistolary chapters
🗣️chapters in conversation
👹human, furry & fantasy heritages
🤷party can’t choose a name
👑royal generational trauma
🗡️mafia
💀death cult
#F #A #QueerPit
August 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
carterscompendium.bsky.social
#queerpit #ef #na #editing

THE CRUEL PRINCE X PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE

👑 prophecies
⚔️ dying magic
👑 competition for the throne
⚔️ forged family
👑 queer & disabled rep
⚔️ slow burn subplot

on track to hit query trenches dec. 2025
August 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
carterscompendium.bsky.social
I’m looking for more friends to swap support for #queerpit and #posterpit this Friday & Saturday!! interact with this post to be added to my list 🌱
August 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
carterscompendium.bsky.social
is anyone participating in #queerpit here?? let me know and i’ll be sure to follow so we can support each other!!
August 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
carterscompendium.bsky.social
coming up with modern aus of the characters that live in my head with my coauthor is sm fun like??? we’re so funny???
August 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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margreyfield.bsky.social
SixofCrowsxPoppyWar
When the Dusters vanished and left Nara behind, she resorted to a life of crime to survive.
In one last heist to save her best friend, Nara teams up with the two people who imprisoned her to steal a Healing relic while evading ghosts from a life she can't remember
#questpit #Q #F
A Guide To DUST WE SHALL RETURN An 88k Fantasy Heist By Marceline Greyfield Pitch A convict stolen from her country, with no memory and a shattered leg, reluctantly teams up with a martial scholar and a vampiric shapeshifter to steal a healing artifact from a Dynaster to save her best friend's life. But when they find Nara's kidnapper commisserating with the Dynaster, Nara must choose between unraveling the secrets oof her past to find where her people vanished to, or protecting her friends and her future from a religious ritual that threatens to split the barrier between man and god. Themes & Tropes Tri POV (F/M/NB) Physically disabled FMC (#OWN) MMC talks like a Jeff Buckley or Hozier song Nonbinary MC fighting to save their sister Ensemble cast Found family Unique magic system Sibling bonds E2L second-chance romance Religious machinations Twisty, slowly revealed backstories Comps Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo: A heist as the central plot with similar worldbuilding and a romance subplot. The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang: Fragmented memories, last of her kind protag, morally complex characters. Memento by Christopher Nolan: Protagonist with a failing memory seeking revenge. Distrustful allies. The Priority of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon: Strong FMC with unique magic, ancient rituals, and political intrigue.
August 6, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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keltondavis.bsky.social
GODKILLER X BONE SHARD DAUGHTER

A desperate heir. A disgraced warrior. A deadly assassin.

🏹 Strong FMC
🏹 Rich Worldbuilding
🏹 Hunt for Redemption
🏹 Cyclical Trauma
🏹 Found Family

Currently Querying!

#Q #A #F #QuestPit
Background: A red forest Title Card Text: An Agent's Guide To: The Daughter and the Nameless Son by Kelton Davis | Adult Fantasy | 100k Words | Querying Now! Background: A red forest Foreground: Six images surrounding a quote (from clockwise): A sunset, a hammer striking hot metal, a red-red arrow fletching, a red-haired archer, a grizzled old man, a red forest. Text: As she walked away, freshly divested of every life she'd ever known—Crown Daughter, ranger, loyal servant to the demesne—she realized that, where she expected to find fear and despair, she found only a rapidly strengthening resolve. She'd already lost everything. All she could do was win it back. Background: A red forest Title: Comps Images: Covers of GODKILLER by Hannah Kaner, THE JUSTICE OF KINGS by Richard Swan, and THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER by Andrew Stewart. Arrows connect similarities between comps. Text: From GODKILLER: Cross-Country Quest to Forbidden Land, Surrogate Parenthood (shared with THE JUSTICE OF KINGS) From BONE SHARD DAUGHTER: Disgraced Heir, Strong FMC (shared with both others) Background: A red forest Title: Pitch Text: Niozene has never been good enough. As daughter and crown heir to the Mother, a living goddess and ruler of her country, perfection is the only standard she’s ever known. Yet, despite her flawless scholar’s education and a polished career as a ranger, Niozene has failed to convince the Mother to look past her greatest flaw—she lacks the holy power to control the minds of others that ordains her family as living gods with divine right to rule. When a shape-changing assassin nearly kills the Mother on Niozene’s watch, she is stripped of her titles and given an ultimatum: return with the assassin’s head, or face excommunication from both her homeland and the afterlife. Desperate, she accepts the task as a final chance to prove herself and show the Mother she deserves a place as her daughter. Allowed only the help of Sonsan, a surly tracker and criminal also facing excommunication, Niozene dreads that she may have lost her chance at redemption before she has even left home. But when Sonsan reveals that he shares the same strange shape-changing power as the assassin, Niozene realizes his assignment to accompany her is more than coincidence. As they track the assassin deep into a forbidden land, confronting demons, ancient magic, and the ghosts that haunt their dreams and blood, they must uncover the truth behind their quest—and the buried history neither knew they shared—if they wish to live to see their promised redemption.
August 6, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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kjsilver.bsky.social
❤️‍🔥 THE HEALER WITCH ❤️‍🔥

If you thought coming back to the place you hate the most was bad, imagine getting tangled in a Healer’s dodgy business AND constantly putting your life in danger in the process.

The odds are not in their favour, but the Gods are.

#agentsguide #questpit #Q #A #F
Purple and orange flames over a dark background. White text reads: The Guardians of Melya present, The Healer Witch. A Bewitched 97K Adult Fantasy by K J Silver Purple and orange flames over a dark background. The white text reads: The pitch - Captain Onwyn Storm's life changes the moment he agrees to work for General Redwood, though he will soon learn just how much. While trying to prove himself and fulfill the bargain he's made to be rid of his father's corrupting influence once and for all he is forces to work with Lunary. A Healer Witch who has more secrets than he can keep track of and could very well cost him everything he has worked so hard for. Or his life, if he's not careful. Purple and orange flames over a dark background. The white text reads: Inside the healer witch - Morally grey FMC, cozy with a dash of darkness, the slowest flame to ever burn, meddling gods, found family that annoy each other to death, sentient houses and secret libraries. 3 pictures on top of it are: the cover for The Courting of Bristol Keats and The Witch Collector, as well as a poster for Avatar the Last Airbender Purple and orange flames over a dark background. White text reads: The Prologue - And so Ylluriel had endured centuries of watching how they destroyed each other. Over land, resources, family feuds. The reason didn’t seem to matter, for they always found another excuse to turn against one another. The greed, the hopelessness. The anger and blood lust. The jealousy and despair. They had all infected the lands of Melya like a plague that no one could stop. Ylluriel had easily grown tired of staying aside. Of having the power to change things and not do anything to help the children that she loved so fiercely. Her love was so great that she was willing to go against Melya herself, the Mother of all. Her grandmother. It wasn’t the first time she had defied her, after all, and she was sure it would not be the last. Especially not when a child, so desperate to live, had found her way to her realm.
August 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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immadeline.bsky.social
STARLING HOUSE X EMILY WILDE
BUT W/CATS 🐈‍⬛

Debt-ridden cat trapper, Ivy, needs $.

Flynn Overton offers her $20k to trap the feral cats on his family’s abandoned estate.

Ivy accepts despite….

👻The girl haunting the swing set
🐈‍⬛ The strange cats
🪞The rippling mirror

#QuestPit #F #A #S #R #W #UA
9 square collage. From left to right. Photo of a castle surrounded by foliage Man and woman embraced. Man is dipping woman. Black cat in grass. Black cat with purple eyes and crescent moon symbol on its forehead Golden oval mirror in a woman’s hands Round stained glass window in a cathedral Girl on swinger Pile of $100 bills four cats lounging in the grass
August 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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ladystroud.bsky.social
A reluctant, messy princess must navigate a twisted portal realm—complete w/ time-bending complications, cryptic riddles, & one maddeningly distracting stranger—to right her wrongs.

Dark, adult Narnia meets Prime’s MLJ in this romantic fantasy full of twists, humor, & heart 🧪

#questpit #A #RF #F
Yield is for fans of books with queer main characters, slow burn(s), found family, the one horse trope, fantasy with spicy romantic subplots, and women’s wrongs. Comps include elevator pitch of NARNIA x My Lady Jane, book comps include Assistant to the Villain, Emily Wilde’s Encylcopaedia of Faeries, One Dark Window, Nettle & Bone, and the Folk of the Air series Vibe/mood board including songs like Hot to Go by Chappell Roan, Fickle Game by Amber Run, and Vertigo by Alice Merton
August 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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noreeswrites.bsky.social
MASTERS OF DEATH x ADDIE LARUE

After Death goes missing a reaper meets a recently dead man who can't move on.

💀Star-crossed lovers
💀Annoyance to lovers
💀Murder mystery
💀Meddling gods
💀Supernatural meets The Sandman
#questpit #AG #F #A
August 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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nialu.bsky.social
An #agentsguide to my querying novel:

Some miscellaneous things:

🌻Astrology, tarot, and crystals galore
🌻God is a woman 👀
🌻 Relationship dynamics and arcs: Familial and Platonic
🌻Different era’s + modern day
🌻 Not having a good time FMC + Sunshine MMC

#PopUpPitA #R #SPEC #A #LuckyPit
March 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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goodwords.bsky.social
POTIONS UNINCORPORATED

Think HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE x THE SPELLSHOP

💜 Chronic Illness Rep
🌱 Plant Magic
💚 Bisexual Witches
🐈‍⬛ A Snarky Familiar
😈 Evil Pharmaceutical Potion Company
☀️ Grumpy X Sunshine Romance
☕ Cozy Vibes

#QuestPit #Q #A #R #F #chronicillnessrep #ownvoices #LGBTQ #cozyfantasy
Potions Unincorporated is written on a black journal with ivy stems and a mushroom on the cover. The tropes are listed with arrows on the right side: Grumpy x Sunshine, Found Family, Evil Pharma Potion Company, Plant Magic, Chronic Illness Rep, Cozy Vibes The Pitch is written on a lavender field background: A curmudgeonly witch with a chronic illness must work with a cheerful thief to stand up to a greedy pharmaceutical company A garden of comps is written on a leaf. The background is brown soil with plants next to comp titles: Legends and Lattes, The Spellshop, Howl's Moving Castle, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, and Under The Whispering Door. A snippet highlights the main character's relationship with her familiar, Toad. In the snippet they discuss Linatta's ex girlfriend and Toad's hatred of hats. A book is open below the image and has wildflowers growing out of the inside spine.
August 6, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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weavinguptales.bsky.social
Arthurian x Indonesian mythology

🤟🏼🗡️ disabled chosen one whose language is that of hands
⚔️ chaotic squad of vigilante knights
👹 a multiverse under the feet of sexy monsters
😤🗡️🫦 enemies to lo–enemies who admire each other's talents. Foemates

#questpit #YA #W
moodboard consisting of 9 pics (a group of swords joined in a huddle (hands can be seen), a river, two hands reaching out for each other against a pinkish sky background, a good masquerade mask on a silky surface with fairy lights, a dagger held behind someone’s back - they’re in a medieval-like dress, the back of an Asian man in a decorated white suit, a skull cradled in the hands of someone in a white-yellowish 18th century dress - they’re also some plants, Indonesian shadow puppets and hands holding a pocket watch against a bluish dress background) in a grid
August 6, 2025 at 5:05 AM
carterscompendium.bsky.social
🕊️ LIGHTLARK X PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE 🍊

#questpit #w #wip #na #a #fantasy

nine realms. ten competitors. all vying for the chance to rule it all—and someone’s not making it out alive.

[coming to your query box soon!]
working cover of ODE + “political intrigue” “3rd person multi-pov” “queer & disabled rep!!” “forged family” LIGHTLARK X PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE In this fast-paced high fantasy, everybody wants something, and power’s up for grabs. winning favour among members of the king’s council is crucial, but the Bardaegan Trials are only beginning. is risking it all worth it? • work in progress (currently editing) • for (new) adult audiences • fantasy inspired by Norse tradition • diverse cast of characters
August 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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kananiokelly.bsky.social
MOANA x SHADOW AND BONE

A refreshed introduction to WHISPERS OF THE SEA, a YA Fantasy that will embark soon on its query journey.

Featuring:
🌊 Native Hawaiian Rep
🌊 Cultural Identity
🌊 Setting as a Character

#QuestPit #YA #F #W #OwnVoices #AgentsGuide
A refreshed introduction to WHISPERS OF THE SEA, a YA Fantasy that will embark soon on its query journey. Featuring: Native Hawaiian Rep Cultural Identity Setting as a Character The second slide showcases the pitch: WHISPERS OF THE SEA follows the story of a teenage girl who embarks on a journey to rescue her uncle after he was mysteriously captured by a group of uniformed men sailing under the royal flags of a faraway kingdom. Keahi must voyage across the seas to this distant isle where she’ll team up with a boy to track her uncle’s whereabouts. But in order to understand the dangers that lurk ahead, she’ll be forced to uncover a lifetime worth of secrets—and she must do so before it’s too late. The third slide indicates that WHISPERS OF THE SEA might appeal to fans of: Disney’s Moana, Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, and Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle. The book includes the following tropes/themes: found family, self-discovery within cultural identity, Hawaiian-inspired mythology, and adventure. The final slide includes a snippet from the book that reads: “Keahi’s legs were immobilized as her body tried to make the decision her mind could not. The feeling was strange for she had dreamt countless of times about leaving the island, only to seize the opportunity and awaken to find that she had been sold a nightmare instead.”
August 6, 2025 at 4:03 AM