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Katie Bowman ✍️ @katiebowman.bsky.social · 16d
JUST LIKE MAGIC X BOOK LOVERS

When finance professionals Nora and Corey swap bodies during a freak lightning strike, they question everything they thought they hated about each other.

Releasing August 2026 with Bedford Square Publishers

#questpit #OS #AG #R
katiebowman.bsky.social
Just remembering the time I told an agent I had a condom for her because autocorrect did me dirty 💀💀

I had a ROMCOM for her
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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jcolawrites.bsky.social
#Questpit #Agentsguide to WHAT LIES IN THE SEA. In the early stages of querying.

Clara Christian has spent years escaping her family until her grandmother’s death sends her down a path to discovering what really happened eight years ago. Oh, and there’s lots of family secrets ✨🌊
November 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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dani-s-writes.bsky.social
#QuestPit Agent's Guide.
My latest #wip is currently being edited, with the aim to be in agents' hands by January 🥳

Nostalgic for Charmed, Practical Magic, or Gilmore Girls, mixed with a lot of Aussie country charm?
Maybe give Calypso and her darling students a go (plus, there's a sexy farmer)?
Movie-style poster of a woman in a pink dress looking out over a field, with white text surrounding her. Pink background with sunflower graphics. Block of dark brown text. Pink background with sunflower graphics. Photo of a woman facing away, and blocks of dark text. Pink background with sunflower graphics. Book titles laid out with a playlist visual and dark brown text.
November 5, 2025 at 7:39 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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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
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bvbodegom.bsky.social
BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE

Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag.

#QuestPit #A #S #SF #W
Made from non-AI free stock images. This image is a book cover design for a novel titled "Happy Death Inc." by B. Van Bodegom. The cover is divided into three distinct horizontal sections: 1. Top Section: Features a cartoonish blue sky with white clouds and a bright sun. At the top, a tagline reads: "How much would you pay to die with a smile?" The word "HAPPY" appears in large, playful, hand-drawn-style font, partially overlapping the sky background. 2. Middle Section: A photograph of a deceased man in a suit, lying in a casket. He has an exaggerated smile on his face, almost unnaturally wide and clean, suggesting artificial enhancement or post-mortem alteration. Overlaid on this image is the word "DEATH" in the same large font as the previous word. 3. Bottom Section: A cartoon city skyline in pastel tones, similar in style to the top sky background. The word "INC." is overlaid prominently in the same large font. At the very bottom: A novel by B. van Bodegom
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 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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saraduran.bsky.social
Wouldn’t be #QuestPit without a shiny new agent guide ✨🌙

ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, feat:

💫 two exiled men (+ their secrets)
💫 one lunar prison (+ its horrors)
💫 a cosmic entity that wants them dead
💫 the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive

#SF #H #R #LGBT
Dark starfield background. Text reads: ‘a guide to BABEL ON CALLISTO a queer cosmic horrormance [wip].’ Bottom right: saraduran@bksy.social / @saraduranauthor on x Dark starfield background. Large text at top: ‘THE PITCH.’ Under two movie posters, text on left reads: ‘encountering the unknowable’ and under Annihilation poster: ‘contact that warps and bends.’ On the right above Brokeback Mountain poster: ‘unlikely intimacy in isolation’ and below: ‘love that cannot last.’ Main body text reads: ‘On a lunar prison outpost, two exiled men uncover a cosmic presence waking beneath the ice. As their uneasy alliance against it twists into something tender and terrifying, they are confronted with the one thing they never expected to find on a dead moon: a reason to live. But the ice is thinning.’ Bottom right: saraduran@bksy.social / @saraduranauthor on x Dark starfield background. Large text at top: ‘THE COMPS.’ Three book covers below. Above the first cover (The Mountain in the Sea): ‘isolated research station.’ Below it: ‘philosophical alien threat.’ Above the second cover (The Deep Sky): ‘psychological unraveling.’ Below it: ‘fracture under mission pressure.’ Above the third cover (The Salt Grows Heavy): ‘queer, visceral horror.’ Below it: ‘love as a consuming force.’ Bottom right: saraduran@bksy.social / @saraduranauthor on x Dark starfield background. Large text at top: ‘SNIPPET.’ Large opening quotation mark. Text reads: ‘Neither spoke as Elias bypassed the security protocol on the keypad. The metal hatch shuddered as it unlocked, slinking back to hidden panels in the wall. They cleared the first few floors with carrion precision, methodical as Dermestidae stripping a carcass to bone. In Elias’s imagination, the gore thinned into something vaster—a time-lapse unraveling the ruin from above. Wordlessly, corridors were scoured to nothing as he and Jack moved like insects beneath an overhead lens. As the hours dissolved, their work became abstracted into a cold anatomy, intimacy pared away as cleanly as flesh from the frame until only the architecture of survival remained. When Jack hacked into the collapsed doorway to the next stairwell, Elias marveled at the contradiction—how those same brutal hands had, only that morning, traced him with the delicacy of a scalpel.’ Large closing quotation mark. Bottom right: saraduran@bksy.social / @saraduranauthor on x
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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arachnereid.bsky.social
Maybe let’s not
doomscroll into a hole

Let's fill our days intentionally
with real rest, play, and productivity
that nourishes our collective soul

They fight for our attention,
for our fear
they gain power from our tears

We're all in this together, loves
Let’s build and feed something better
winter blooming Camellia going OFF Doug Firs behind
January 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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elizabethtitus.bsky.social
🔥 WHAT will GROW from the ASHES of our fallen civilization?

🕸️ a post collapse adventure of psychic powers and nurturing community

🔮 journey through the tarot across the former US, with unexpected twists

🌱 Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built

#A #Q #S #SFF #questpit #hopepunk #clifi
a Death tarot card I drew titled "What rises from the ashes" with death on a moped, a sun tarot card, a lovers tarot card, a color Hermit tarot card (I did all the art) quotes: "Every end is a beginning" - Tai Gong Diao "Light shines brightest in the deepest dark!" - Jim Butcher a variety of photos from my travels (+one dilapidated shack I did not capture myself) of reflective water in various landscapes and urban decay and plants growing through, swamp, fire, bridges, a map of the US with shrunken coastline over a sunset sky with leaves growing from dead branches elemental magic visions survival skills climate fiction #clifi indigenous futurism plant medicine meditation wilderness permaculture neotribalism community backpacking post-apocalyptic hopepunk
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
katiebowman.bsky.social
JUST LIKE MAGIC X BOOK LOVERS

When finance professionals Nora and Corey swap bodies during a freak lightning strike, they question everything they thought they hated about each other.

Releasing August 2026 with Bedford Square Publishers

#questpit #OS #AG #R
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM
katiebowman.bsky.social
I’m going to join in #questpit

Who else is posting?!
November 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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dani-s-writes.bsky.social
#AgentsGuide to THE LEAGUE

Just under 90k, this dual pov adult thriller with horror vibes has:
❤️‍🔥enemies to lovers to ??
🗡️stabby women
✨feminine RAGE
😈queer s3x with two hot villains
👑power-hungry secret society
🦽disability/mental health rep
😵‍💫dysfunctional family

#writingcommunity #amquerying
The pitch for the manuscript on a cream background Beta comments on a black background 1 Beta comments on a black background 2 The tropes and comps on a cream background
April 16, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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rebeccamatte.com
Hi friends: I’m being impersonated on X (and maybe here) and this person is asking people to get in touch to make books. I am not on X but was sent this screenshot to my website.

Can you please report this account, and spread the word? @bradfordagents.bsky.social @victoriastrauss.bsky.social
Impersonator account @LaraSalimo53327 on X using my name and profile
March 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
katiebowman.bsky.social
Why did I just spend 45 seconds watching a dog get washed like a newborn baby? 😂
March 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
katiebowman.bsky.social
There simply isn’t enough time in my life for all the books I want to read
March 2, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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jcolawrites.bsky.social
Finally ready to dip a toe into the query waters with WHEN YOU SHOWED UP ✨

#agentsguide to an emotional rollercoaster women’s fiction novel that explores identity, complex family dynamics, and healing through the power of friendship and second chance love. #amquerying #writingcommunity #agents
February 18, 2025 at 4:15 AM
katiebowman.bsky.social
For the first time EVER, I am a few chapters into my WIP and haven’t reread my beginning and started editing.

This feels like personal growth 😂
#writingcommunity
January 30, 2025 at 4:02 AM
katiebowman.bsky.social
I have ✨NEWS✨

I am thrilled to announce I’m now repped by the fabulous Kate Rizzo at @greeneandheaton.bsky.social 🥳🥳
January 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
katiebowman.bsky.social
Really excited to share some good news soon after years of hard work and perseverance 🥳
#writingcommunity
January 28, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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bluepit.bsky.social
There's a lot of pitch events here at the start of the year, so it's pretty hard to keep track.

Here's a list of the ones we know of and when they're happening!

#WritingCommunity
#WriteSky #Writers
#AmQuerying #AmWriting
BlueSky PitchEvents 1.24 #YouDeservePit 1.27 #2025Pit 2.1 #MiseryPit 2.12 #MSWL Day 2.12 #QuestPit 2.14 #CuPit 2.17 #SludgePit 2.26 #WIPSnipsPit 3.17 #PopUpPit (date hinted at)
January 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
katiebowman.bsky.social
If you’re from the #writingcommunity say hi, especially if we were moots on X!

I’m yelling into a black void and the vibe is not vibing
January 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
katiebowman.bsky.social
Excited to read this after seeing everyone talking about it
January 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM