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Azi is querying a toxic friendship YA Fantasy

@smossman.bsky.social

An #agentsguide to STARSENT, my MISTBORN x HOUSE OF THE BEAST friends-to-enemies YA secondary world Fantasy, or “Friendtasy”, complete at 106k words, already with Big 5 Editor interest!

I’m now officially #amquerying so if you’d like to see this, lemme know! 💫

An agent's guide to STARSENT, by azi ossman

November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM

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James A Lyons

@jalwrites.bsky.social

Half the World Away is now yours.

HEARTSTOPPER meets BOY LIKE ME

Set in the midst of Section 28, the BBC launch an inter-school pen pal project. Theo writes. Alex replies. This is what happens next.

Thanks to those who have written such wonderful reviews.

I really hope you all love it ✉️🌎

The front cover of the book, with the characters of Alex and Theo nearby. The text reads: Available now. Half the World Away. When Theo joins Year 9 at his local state school, he reluctantly agrees to take part in a new national pen pal project. After losing hope of a reply, an unexpected letter arrives from Alex, a confident private school boarder, sparking a connection that could change everything. www.linktree.com/jamesalyons

Reviews - “Would fully recommend. It was such an easy read, and I absolutely loved it. The flow of the writing between Alex's letters and Theo's day were really well done and made it seamless to the point that you knew exactly what was going on.” ~ ARC review

“A gorgeous, heartwarming, fuzzy book. I adored this from start to finish. I would have loved to have read more books like this growing up - so much about this book was wholesome and at the same time thought provoking. I would highly recommend this book! Absolutely gorgeous” ~ ARC review

“Half the World Away explores love, distance, and identity in such a heartfelt way that I found myself smiling one minute and tearing up the next. It was tender, funnny, and quietly powerful. The themes of belonging, queer identity, and self-discovery shine through with warmth and emotion.” ~ ARC review

“Half the World Away is a gorgeous, heartwarming story and I know you’ll just FALL IN LOVE with it! If you liked Heartstopper, you’ll love this! Sweet, wholesome and everything you need in a book.” ~ ARC review

SEPTEMBER 1995

According to Nan, I’m four times more likely to be eaten by a shark than I am to win the National Lottery. Well, the joke is on her. I have never paddled deeper than my shins in the sea, and in front of me sits a winning lottery ticket.
It may only be three matching numbers and worth a tenner, but I will take any positivity I can get. Life has been one kickback after another recently. Ten pounds won’t change that, and I often wonder if I’ll ever get a real lucky day.
Today is my second ever first day of school. With the way Mum has been making a fuss, I should have an adventurous excitement flowing through my veins with each ripple from my heartbeat. The truth is my stomach is knotted as I stare down at three soggy Weetabix. They swim around my bowl, turning to mush, whilst Take That remind me from the radio to never forget where I came here from.

Heartstopper meets Boy Like Me.

Theo has been home schooled for three years, but his mother’s terminal illness forces him into Year Nine at his local school. Struggling to adapt, he’s persuaded to join a national pen pal project.

His letter lands on the desk of Alex—a confident, private school boarder, and aspiring county rower—everything Theo is not. Despite their differences, the two begin to secretly confide, sharing struggles with grief, loneliness, and the pressures of a society demanding conformity.

As their correspondence intensifies, Theo realises he has fallen for the boy in the letters. Concerned the outside world remains unwelcoming, and with Alex set to move to France, Theo must express his true feelings before they miss their chance to meet.

November 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

editing corruptionwip, and I've added... 11k so far. I still have 14 chapters left to edit 😭😂

November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

Thank you soooooo much for all the questpit love!! It's blown me away seeing how vibrant and active this community is. So many good books gonna hit the shelves one day 🧡

November 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

I swear this manuscript is my white whale. ONE DAY I WILL HAVE IT!!!!!

arlen ren ✨ @arlenrenwrites.bsky.social · 8d

Enby teen Sam is supposed to put cryptids & conspiracies behind them. But when bestie Katie starts acting weird, Sam knows the cult on the edge of town is to blame. The only one who'll help them prove it is Casper, who's from the cult himself. Can Sam trust him to save Katie?

#QuestPit #YA #W #H

The words "A Guide to The Langley Conspiracy by Arlen Ren" over a background of a gap in a chain link fence in a woodland. a silhouette of a UFO hovers in a gap in the trees.

Non-binary teen Sam is on their last warning. Their bully has been excluded from school, but they're having to resit the year. They're separated from their best friend, Katie - but she's barely spoken to them all summer, anyway.
Back at St. Jean's Catholic High School, Sam finds out why.
While Sam was ditching classes, kids from the commune on the edge of town joined the school, forming the mysterious "Astral Club" whose badge is pinned to Katie's lapel. Sam knows that Katie's weird behaviour must be linked to this "club", but no-one else seems to think there's a problem. No-one apart from Casper, the boy from the commune who's set on helping Sam investigate the conspiracy at the heart of St. Jean's.

character art of a white-haired boy with light brown skin drinking from a straw, and a disgruntled-looking white enby with pink hair. under the white-haired boy (Casper) are the words "what does he want?!", and above the picture of the pink-haired enby (Sam) are the words "hi, I'm Sam". themes are listed on the page: YA Paranormal, non-binary MC, "I want to believe", friendship breakup, queer refusal to conform.

a moodboard alluding to UFOs, disappearances, conspiracy maps, with two inspiration pieces of media linked to it via arrows: the X-Files and Twilight (yes, Twilight. I know. I KNOW.)

November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

I'm looking respectfully 👀

Joy is ✨querying✨ 🥀🪦 @joyiswriting.bsky.social · 9d

Excitedly presenting an #agentguide for HEART OF THE BAYOU, my sapphic horror-romance—now in an inbox near you!!

🫀Deep Southern cryptids
🫀sapphic pining
🫀coming of rage
🫀monsters as a metaphor for queerness & disability
🫀 ✨Big 5✨ editor interest x2

#questpit #YA #Q #H #R #LGBT

An agent’s guide to: HEART OF THE BAYOU
A YA Horror-Romance

The pitch:

The deadly legends that prowl the bayou eat more than just souls— and one wants Elle's heart for her own ...

When a paranormal migration brings a slew of deadly soul-eating cryptids to the quiet swamps of Louisiana, subsequently cornering the paranormal clinic 17-year-old Elle works at—she must find out why the bloodthirsty monsters are migrating before BOLT, a paranormal branch of the FBI, threatens to shut down the clinic and arrest its supernatural patients.
But when she discovers her crush is hiding some monsters of her own, the kind of cryptid that might just take down the clinic and Elle's heart—she'll have to decide if she's ready to take the girl's advice and finally risk letting her own inner monsters out of the closet ...

Comps:
They Bloom at Night, I Feed Her to the Beast, A Feast for the Eyes, This Ravenous Fate, Hear Her Howl, The Coven Tendency

Snippet from HEART OF THE BAYOU:

I'd heard of the brutality of how these cryptids killed. How the survivors were lucky if you managed to escape with only an arm lost. How they enjoyed ripping people from flesh to tendons and finally bone, before they dove for the final kill and snapped their prey's neck, the tell-tale halo of blood flowering above their victims' heads

I only hoped there was something I could salvage once the beast finished.
The man's shrieks didn't cease until the monster's eyes glowed brighter, rubies sparkling in the center of a dangerous black mass. His body stilled, transfixed in terror. A silent scream began to pry his lips apart as if drawn by an invisible force. I winced, the sounds of bones clicking, dislocating, and popping as the man's eyes rolled to the back of his head. A fleshy lump burst through his shirt, pulsating and twisting like worms had taken ahold of his skin.

Tropes & Vibes:
“Only one bed”
Abandoned houses & creepy dockyards
Sociopolitical commentary
Neurodivergent, queer & anxiety rep
Lesbian MC’s
Cryptids & legends from the Deep South
Small town horror
The monster wins in the end . . .
Sassy x Stabby FMC’s

Central moodboard:
Swamp pictures, an orange moon, flannels, heart-shaped carabiners, a “don’t go into the woods” sign, girls kissing, a religious sign, a truck in a field

November 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

"the problem with angels is, sometimes, they talk back."

OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY

M is queer-ying MG @notonlyicarus.bsky.social · 8d

presenting the #agentsguide for my adult queer gothic horror romance wip featuring:

🥀 angel summoning cult
🥀 corruption arc(s)
🥀 extremely unreliable narrator
🥀 it’s all a metaphor for ocd

the problem with angels is, sometimes, they talk back.

✨ready for betas in December 👀
#QuestPit #W #A #H

red wallpaper background, to the right is art by @nelsnote of a man looking up holding a bloody book, the light on him is coming from an angel wing and there are eyes in the dark behind him. he has an awestruck expression. to the left is, in gothic print, adult queer gothic horror romance, underneath that says ready for betas December 31, then under that the title forbidden fruits, with a honey drip underneath.

to the left a red and black-themed moodboard: around the top border and right border: someone falling through red-tinged clouds; someone in white embracing a dark shadow with a halo behind them; someone standing at the top of some stairs, surrounded by giant red bulging eyes; a faded black and white photo style picture of a dark smudge shadow and the shape of someone hooking their head over the shadow’s shoulder, crying dark tears; red-toned painting of an angel with three eyes. The left space is occupied by a text image, gothic white on red, that reads ‘the problem with angels is sometimes they talk back’ over and over again. on top of that picture, picture of a painting of an eye with a large gold star growing in it. to the right, pitch written in gothic print. the pitch: why do you need an angel?
according to the codex his teacher wrote, that’s the most important question to ask when summoning them. simon knows his answer: there’s someone he worships—the teacher he built a cult around—and he won’t stop until he has him.

dark red wallpaper background. top left says comps, underneath are pictures of the covers for THE DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE by Caitlin Starling and EVOCATION by S.T. Gibson. under that is a cream coloured drawing of a wolf. top right says elements in gothic print. elements: angel summoning as dark magic, corruption arc, epistolary dual timeline, violent longing has consequences, Victorian secret societies, he’s not dead until I say so. to the left is an angel statue.

dark red wallpaper background. top left says feedback so far in gothic print. feedback is snippets from discord, saying: 1. THE KIND OF LOVE THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT might be in the apocrypha BUT STILL. and arguably, arguably, God so loving the world he gave his one and only son IS HONESTLY THE KIND OF OBSESSION WE’RE TALKING ABOUT HERE I GET YOU. 2. I feel like I was completely ignorant of what horniness even is before I met Simon and his whole deal. like, Jesus Christ, that dude. 3. I need to eat the fruits they are too tempting and beautiful.
In the centre is a statue of lucifer.
on the right is snippet in gothic print. the snippet: “I miss you desperately. I toy with effigies and cannot make myself reshape you in wax or clay. it’s you I want”

November 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

Jinns in our books 🫱🏻‍🫲🏽 me and you

FT Zahra @ftzahra.bsky.social · 8d

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 9:04 PM

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

I loved reading this originally, and I bet its a million times even better now it's gone through a mentorship scheme! Defo one to keep an eye on!! 👀

MelonieWithAnO @meloniewithano.bsky.social · 8d

PJO XTrumanShow
Being the gods' pawn isn’t new to 15y/o Mia Miller, an anxious girl w/ music magic. But when a quest to Nashville is derailed by a book where she’s the MC, Mia & BFF must find the author & salvage her quest, before Olympus finds out.
#QuestPit #Q #YA #F

Moodboard with alternating images between black and white and vivid color. A greek statue, a raven, a girl crying, a girl with hand lifted, an oracle, a light magic, a face statue, Nashville neon lights at night. Text: Music will be the death of me.

November 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

I love this concept 👀

Thea Quinn (is writing more lesbians) @theaquinnwrites.bsky.social · 8d

THE HOST x HELL FOLLOWED x GIDEON

150 years after the angels ended the world, Kas becomes a vessel for one. She teams up with the angel in her head—and her furious ex-gf—to save her sister, and discovers that the angels are no saviors, but intelligent alien parasites.

#QuestPit #SF #A #LGBT #W

3x3 moodboard
Top Left - a dust in the shape of an angel rising over human forms
Top Middle - an abandoned, half-ransacked store
Top Right - A person's shoulder with a black spot
Middle left - a door sign for a nuclear boiler room
Middle Right - an abandoned sign in a deserted town that says "Are you going to Heaven?"
Bottom Left - an abandoned church covered by overgrowth
Bottom Middle - a statue of an angel with black spots
Bottom Right - people walking over an abandoned bridge.

November 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

I lovvvve the idea of shark riders! What an inventive idea for a fantasy!!!

arlen ren ✨ @arlenrenwrites.bsky.social · 8d

Foundling Finn has a secret: he's terrified of sharks. When raiders attack his shark-loving community, he's the last person who can help. But when a terrifying-looking sand tiger shark shares its bond with him, he must venture across the Aedenic Ocean to reunite his shoal.

#QuestPit #YA #W #F 🦈✨

a picture of a blåhaj pasted over a photo of the ocean, with the words "the complete guide to Sharkfinn by Arlen Ren" and "a YA eco-fantasy" with yellow sparkles

Pitch: When 15yo foundling Finn skips the age-old threshing ceremony, the resulting shark bite costs him his future as an atlaesi, protector of the shoal. But when raiders attack his home and its sharks, Finn must team up with fellow survivors Makina - and the terrifying-looking sand tiger shark whose anima he now apparently shares - to reunite their community and save their sharks.

As they venture across the vast beauty of the Nation of the Waves, they discover that the raiders' reign of terror extends far beyond their own tiny shoal, and that if they are to stop them, they must go to depths none would ever have believed possible.

Excerpt: The gentle waves lapped at the lone raftway that stuck out from all the others, right at the edge of the shoal's outer structures. At its end was the threshing pool. Finn's heart beat harder as he approached it, his legs starting to wobble. The sea lurched on either side of him, the water night-black and infinitely deep, the moonlight reduced to a glimmering sheen that gilded it. The submerged pool stretched to beyond where he could see its borders, with even the closest of its posts barely visible at all.

As if in response to Finn's presence, several fins broke the water.

Read if you like...The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman, The Neptune Project by Polly Holyoke and Exodus by Julie Bertagna; animal companions, the magic of nature, epic adventure and eco fantasy. YA for younger teens!

November 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

Can't wait to read this, it's gonna be incredible. The guide alone is fantastic!!!

arlen ren ✨ @arlenrenwrites.bsky.social · 8d

Twins Kyra and Kaden don't talk about what happened over the summer. But as their classmates disappear into the Pines, they have to start facing up to their problems before they're next. The issue is, they don't know who to trust—not even each other.

Not even themselves.

#QuestPit #YA #W #H

a photo of pine trees surrounding a river, with the writing "a guide to The Killer of Canderley Creek by Arlen Ren" over it

Kyra and Kaden Hawkins have had the summer from Hell. Kicked out by their mum, they've rejoined their dad in the town they grew up in, Canderley Creek, where two neighbourhoods straddle the estuary: the prosperous Pines and downtrodden Tides. Nothing has changed.

Except for the twins.

Now, as their classmates disappear into the woods, they have no-one to turn to, no-one to trust. Not even each other. Not even themselves.

YA Horror WIP

two chibi portraits of the main characters: a white gay trans boy with white hair with black bangs, and a white bi cis girl with black hair in bunches with white bangs. over a background of pine needles are the following themes: dual POV, horror whodunit, unreliable narrators, finding literal monsters instead of facing your problems, small town setting, there's something lurking beneath the earth

Comp titles and themes: Fear Street by RL Stone, Good Girls Die First by Kathryn Foxfield, Bad Creek by Peyton June. Ancient malignant entities! Horror where you don't know who you can trust! Creepy forest/creek settings!

November 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

👀👀👀

trang ☆ is querying! @trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social · 8d

Sharing my #agentsguide for CONDUCT OF MAGES, an #A #F for fans of JADE CITY x SIX OF CROWS

When her mentor goes missing Gemma teams up with fellow mage, Ren, to uncover a plot to eradicate mages…one that involves the emergence of a mysterious stone that mimics their powers.

#questpit #Q #querying

cover page that says CONDUCT OF MAGES, an adult fantasy complete at 102K words on a moody dark background showing a brown building and orange and yellow paper lanterns

text reads THE VIBES and lists: energy magic, heists & scheming, found family, research subplot, slooow burn, female role models, SE Asian setting. placed on a moody dark background showing a brown building and orange and yellow paper lanterns

text reads FOR FANS OF and then six book covers are displayed, from top left to bottom right: JADE CITY, JASAD HEIR, MISTBORN, HEARTLESS HUNTER, BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN, and SIX OF CROWS

text reads EXCERPTS. the first is labeled FIRST LINE, and reads “Gemna was sorting through a basket of sparrowberries when she found out that her existence had been outlawed.” the second text bid is labeled CHAPTER 4 and reads: “In all fairness, Yala had never specified just how flammable elderfire was.

The heat was instantaneous and overwhelming. Gemna felt it scorch the edges of her sleeves before she pulled in the energy from the flames and, when she was nearly bursting with it, diverted it towards the two Hands at the front of the shop. The fire died harmlessly at her feet before it could eat its way into the hidden cellar below.”

November 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

This sounds amazing

J.A. Moy @jamoy.bsky.social · 8d

KPOP DEMON HUNTERS x PERSONA 5

By day, Mia & her friends are a viral pop group. By night, they’re vigilantes who fight predators in a metaverse

⭐️Mixed race/Chinese rep
🐶TALKING CORGI
🔥Magical Cyber Girls
🗺️Diaspora & racial biases themes
💞Rivals to lovers
📱Social Media Madness
#questpit #ya #sff #w

6 picture collage. Top left is a city view at night and lights beaming down. Top center is a close up of a girl with pink hair singing into a mic. Top right is a malware warning on a screen.
Bottom left is a close up of a hand grabbing a cell phone. Center is a silhouette of five girls posing. Bottom right is a crowd in front of a stage with blue smoke.

November 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

Constance kicking ass and taking names!

Katie Bailey @emmacarelli.bsky.social · 8d

When exorcising ghosts, it helps to have a medium with a cool head and sympathetic heart.

Constance is a medium with none of those.

In a blend of horror/comedy that gets darker as it goes, traveling ghost hunters get in too deep when the dead won’t RIP
#questpit #a #q #uf #spec #h

Digital screen saying, "Constance is a reluctant medium with a death fresh on her conscience. She'd much rather keep her abilities a secret and turn her back on spirits, but when her only friend starts a freelance ghost hunting team, she tags along. Someone has to keep them out of trouble, right? If only things were that easy. But people go missing, spirits become restless, and as a building threat is determined to break the barrier between life and death, she'll discover that neither the past nor the paranormal are content to remain hidden. Great for adult fans of Ghostbusters, Scooby-Doo, psych-esque banter includes: unlikable heroine, found family maps, urban legends, fast- paced banter, mysterious organizations, human experiments, horror without gore, adult horror-comedy/ spec 97,000 words"

Blonde woman stands in front of a brick wall, stretching, ready to fight.

November 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

COBAB x Animorphs

After a desperate outcast pretends to be the Chosen One, the REAL Chosen One is kidnapped. To save him, she must cross the world, pursued in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an Empire obsessed with the arcane abilities of her friends.

#questpit #Q #YA #F

November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

Kindred x Life on Mars

A Muslim young man must grapple with generational trauma and the very real danger of racism and discrimination when he is thrown back in time to 1970s Britain from 2024.

🌙muslim mcs
🗡️murder mystery
🗣️1970s british racism deepdive

#questpit #Q #YA #S #HF

November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

Assassin's Creed x The Louvre heist (iykyk)

When a heist goes wrong, 2 members of opposing secret societies find themselves pursued by a jinn bent on the subjugation of human & jinn-kind. With Seen and Unseen on their tail, can they thwart the jinn's plans?

#questpit #Q #YA #UF

November 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

TGUWG x Poppy War

In a kingdom where necromancy is illegal, budding necromancer Sera fights her way to the top of the kingdom court. Discovery means death, but Sera has always wanted to make an impact and she won't let something like morals get in her way.

#questpit #W #A #DF

November 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

🔥🔥🔥

Jessica Chandler (she/her) @jessicachandler.bsky.social · 8d

School Spirits x Cemetery Boys

When Skyler made a 🤝 with the reaper to catch 👻 in exchange for putting her cancer in remission, she did not have a half ghost boy begging her to reunite him with his body on her bingo card. The ⏰ is ticking and the reaper doesn’t like secrets.

#Q #questpit #YA #LGBT

Neon picture for an agent’s guide to Get Ghosted. Features a picture of a kid wearing a sheet with sunglasses over it and pointing to the titled Get Ghosted

Text with arrows pointing to the different pictures reads: vengeful ghosts, reunited the boy with his body, talk to ghosts, and am I actually dead though?

On a neon smoke background is a long snippet from the book

November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

This is a fantastic novel, and I can't wait for it to find the home it deserves!!! 🔥🔥🔥

arlen ren ✨ @arlenrenwrites.bsky.social · 8d

He's the only thing standing between college students and certain death. Unfortunately, teen monster hunter Daniel is responsible for more civilian deaths than monster kills, and unless he can find the key to a power he doesn't believe in, his new friends will pay the price...

#QuestPit #YA #Q #UF

a picture of two teenage monster hunters - a white boy with white hair and an Asian girl with black and blonde hair - by artist iLiibra, next to the title "An Agent's Guide to The Tithe That Binds by Arlen Ren"

YA. Paranormal. 78k.

When an inept teen monster hunter is sent undercover to a prestigious college, he's horrified to discover that he's the only thing standing between its students and certain death. Failing to find his power, he instead finds a girl with powers she shouldn't have...who he shouldn't be falling for.

Longlisted in the 2024 Times Chicken House competition.

It was crouched on the edge of the building, instantly recognisable by its ashen skin and lipless mouth, eyeless sockets and gleaming fangs.

Vampire.

For fans of Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy, The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski, and First Kill by V.E. Schwab. Shared themes are monsters drawn to hunters, forbidden feelings, action-packed fight sequences and a secret monster-hunting society.

November 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

I adore the comps! Sounds like my kind of story!!

James Keller-Am Querying @thekellerverse.bsky.social · 9d

#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 12:21 PM

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

COBAB x Animorphs

After a desperate outcast pretends to be the Chosen One, the REAL Chosen One is kidnapped. To save him, she must cross the world, pursued in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an Empire obsessed with the arcane abilities of her friends.

#questpit #Q #YA #F

YA FANTASY
76k
Art by pideydraws tumblr

Pitch: Zyra lies, her village burns, & her best friend and village chosen one is ripped away. To get him back, she must cross a world that calls her enemy, pursued in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an Empire obsessed with the arcane abilities of her friends.
spears in the dark is a multi-pov novel which is the first in a duology.
Spears was long-listed in the Times/Chicken House Children’s Novel Competition 2023!

Spears in the Dark by Hadiyah Sama

Excerpt: ...The clouds broke as she ran from cover, and she saw something she’d never seen before in the sky. A grey boat of some kind, but it was hovering like a bird, held aloft like it was pinned there by a spear. It was higher than even the mountains, and Zyra gaped. How were they supposed to stop that thing? The ship hovered over the bazaar. Beneath it, people swarmed like ants...

Comps – Animorphs – teens making terrible choices, children of blood and bone – multi POV, BIPOC leads, Blood Scion – anticolonialism narratives, ATLA – found family, women’s wrongs, FFVII – disability rep and ecofantasy

November 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

Kindred x Life on Mars
A Muslim young man must grapple with generational trauma and the very real danger of racism and discrimination when he is thrown back in time to 1970s Britain from 2024.

🌙muslim mcs
🗡️murder mystery
🗣️1970s british racism deepdive

#questpit #Q #YA #S #HF

Alt:
AFFINITY BY HADIYAH SAMA
Pitch: Octavia Butler's Kindred meets BBC's Life on Mars in this YA historical novel with a speculative twist, about a Muslim young man who must grapple with generational trauma and the very real danger of racism and discrimination when he is thrown back into the 1970s from 2024.

Blurb: Second generation desi Imran just can't understand his traditional parents. They have a chip on their shoulder he can’t quite get with. It’s 2024 and this is England; things are different now, aren’t they?
When he's gifted with a pendant that throws him back into 1970s Britain, realises his parents' fears are not so far away. Stranded in the past with a dead body at his feet, Imran must fight to survive the way his parents did... or not at all.

Comps: Kindred – generational trauma narratives, life on mars – time travel murder mystery, all my rage - muslim MCs & community commentary, I’ll stop the world – time travel, throwback – time travel / coming of age, blinded by the light – muslim mc, coming of age.

November 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

Assassin's Creed x The Louvre heist (iykyk)

When a heist goes wrong, 2 members of opposing secret societies find themselves pursued by a jinn bent on the subjugation of human & jinn-kind. With Seen and Unseen on their tail, can they thwart the jinn's plans?

#questpit #Q #YA #UF

A CONVERGENCE OF SOULS BY HADIYAH SAMA

Pitch: When a museum heist goes wrong, Lyana finds herself pursued by a secret organisation masterminded by a powerful Jinn hellbent on the subjugation of human & jinn-kind alike. With the Seen & Unseen on her tail, can Lyana thwart their plans?
A CONVERGENCE OF SOULS is a dual POV novel that centres on the deadly secrets of two members of rival secret societies.

Features: YA, urban fantasy, secret societies, islamic mythology, she hates him, heists, horror elements

Comps: Assassin’s creed – secret societies, alt history, alif the unseen – Islamic mythos, Portrait of a thief – heists, the stardust thief – Islamic mythos, Indiana jones – alt history & adventure romp

November 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM

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