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jenn (is querying and writing)
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28 | library worker and writer | chronically ill + endometriosis | gothic romance and horror + eldritch horror | 🖤cr: Demons by Dostoyevsky

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jenn (is querying and writing) @kotegentarri.bsky.social · Jul 13
an #agentsguide to #Thoroughfare ♡
.°˖⋆ ℧ 𓃗 .°˖⋆

A western gothic horror in which a sunshine Apostle must work with a grumpy outlaw to save the western towns from an eldritch horror spreading a virus of death.

♡ This is a novella! 26,500 words ♡
#BluePit 📖 #A #H #SP #Q #DIS #amquerying
"Western-themed image titled 'An Agent’s Guide to Thoroughfare' features a cowboy on horseback under a starry night sky, flanked by illustrated revolvers." The pitch section with a background picture, aesthetic, and short pitch. Text: An Apostle shunned away in a Creedance amongst mountains and snow is summoned to assist an outlaw hiding amongst the desert plains..." A mysterious night scene with a glowing moon above a cowboy on horseback. A church is depicted alongside, with ominous red streaks. Text overlays describe a tale of an apostle aiding an outlaw against a monstrous threat. The mood is tense and atmospheric. A dialogue scene/snippet shows two people. Theodora, a woman with an intense expression, questions life after death. The Apostle, a blonde man, suggests life’s meaning lies in present love, not afterlife, adding a tone of reflection and calm. Alt text: A graphic with "COMPS, THEMES, TROPE" in bold. Left shows covers of "Tombstone," "What Moves the Dead," "Red Dead Redemption II," and "The Brothers Karamazov." Center features vintage and Western images as an aesthetic moodboard. Right lists themes like "Female rage" and tropes "Grumpy x Sunshine." Background shows a moody, dark setting with a church.
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tylerstasi.bsky.social
#QuestPit #W #F #R

an adult gothic pirate x knight fantasy:

A FATE INKED IN BLOOD x A Knight's Tale

🌊immersive worldbuilding
⚔️stone cold knight FMC
🏴‍☠️bloodthirsty pirate lord MMC
⚓️deadly bargain + mineral magic
🏰high stakes political intrigue
iron tide wip by tyler stasi iron tide wip pitch tyler stasi iron tide wip comps and snippet tyler stasi iron tide vibes and tropes wip by tyler stasi
November 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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kotegentarri.bsky.social
THOROUGHFARE ₊ ⊹ ˑ 𓂃

a religious apostle & western outlaw must work together to stop an eldritch horror spreading across the desert

- novella (26k)
- a sunshine MMC and grumpy FMC
- eldritch monsters but the true horror is humanity

#questpit #Q #A #H #S #West
A writing pitch in the UI of Netflix with the title Thoroughfare, a description of the "work", and similar recommendations as the form of comparables: Vampries of El Norte, Blood Meridian, What Moves the Dead, and Red Dead Redemption 2. The background is a blue artwork of a western city and a gothic chapel with strange smoke coming from the belltower.
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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revolita.bsky.social
🇸🇻 PRECOLONIAL (INDIGENOUS) EL SALVADOR 🇸🇻

Itotia’s a healer’s apprentice struggling to meet her mentor’s expectations. Metztli's a worship-hating deity. When Itotia binds them together, Metztli grapples with mortality & Itotia learns the gods aren’t as benevolent as she thought

#QuestPit #Q #RF
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social
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 3:14 PM
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chrisakins.bsky.social
GRIM PORTENTS

HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE X CONSTANTINE

A man is murdered by a hell-beast on his wedding day. Now, with the help of the reaper who collected his soul, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell if he wants to return to the life he was robbed of.

#P #F #H #PR #Hu #OWN #questpit
Grim Portents cover featuring a skeleton hand holding a feather and emerging from an open book. The title is on a burning banner that envelops the feather and a large beast looms over it all. At the top, the tagline reads: Welcome to the first day of the end of your life… Black and white sketch of characters Bill and Sonny. Bill is a dark featured man in a suit and kind of a Mark Ruffalo vibe. Sonny is a rotting corpse man with a cardigan. "I HAD ALWAYS TOLD MYSELF IT WAS A FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION, THE MIND PLAYING TRICKS. IT WAS JUST A SHADOW. BUT NOW THE MONSTER HAD BEEN GIVEN A NAME, AN IDENTITY. IT WAS REAL." Bill Baker wants nothing more than to marry the woman he loves, but when his wedding is interrupted by a rampaging hell-beast, his life is thrown into disarray. Desperate for a second chance, he will do anything to set his future back on track. Now, with the help of a soul-collecting reaper named Sonny, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell, in order to earn back the life that was stolen from him and prevent the oncoming end of days. Faced with the choice between what is right and what is easy, Bill may have to sacrifice all he holds dear for one last shot at life. Ad for Grim Portents, featuring a print copy of the book and an ebook on an iPhone. A QR code that takes you to my website and the words “Scan to learn more about debut paranormal fantasy novel Grim Portents” below it. Under that, it says “Available online anywhere books are sold!” And above it all is the tagline “Welcome to the first day of the end of your life”
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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tylerstasi.bsky.social
#QuestPit #S #F #W

an adult speculative literary-leaning standalone:

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus x THE DOLL PEOPLE x LAPVONA

A rare wind-up doll in a traveling oddities show uncovers a dark truth about her troupe's origins.

🚂🗝🫖🕯🎭
moodboard for dark speculative standalone novel wip by tyler stasi
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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lawilding.bsky.social
EMILY WILDE'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FAERIES X DIVINE RIVALS

📖 Cozy, light academia
🌿 Soft FMC studying nature-based magic
🌸 Hidden garden steeped in secrets
🏛️ Academic rivals-to-lovers
💌 Slow-burn romance
🍃 Legacy, ambition, and belonging

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F #RF
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
kotegentarri.bsky.social
⋆⁺₊❅.
ADESTE FIDELES
⋆⁺₊❅.

A couple in Maryland unknowingly invite the Devil to dine with them on Christmas Eve ❄️

- scottish folklore of Black Donald
- holiday horror novella
- doomed lovers
- religious shame, love over sin

#questpit #Q #A #H #HF #R
A picture of a writing pitch in the form of Netflix UI with the title, the genres Horror and Historical Fiction, a description, and similar recommendations in the form of comparables: The Devil and Tom Walker, A History of Fear, Knock, Knock Open Wide; and The Green Knight.
November 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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annahirsch.bsky.social
Ciarán doesn’t want to be followed by death. He certainly doesn’t expect to fall in love with her. Pursuing a doomed romance with his family’s banshee in the face of plague, he must choose the pain of living or the seduction of the death-bringer.

#SmoochPit 2025

#questpit #W #A #Horrormance #H
Mood board depicting a moody, gothic romance vibe, with a rural historical Ireland setting Title: The Banshee of Clan Murtagh Body: Ireland, 1348 When Ciarán Murtagh hears the cry of his family’s banshee for the first time in a decade, he knows one of his own is fated to die. But they don’t believe his warnings--why would they? The last time Ciarán heard the banshee he didn’t tell a soul until after his cousin’s tragic death, and they’ve never trusted him since. Desperate for redemption in his family’s eyes, Ciarán hunts down the banshee in search of answers. She’s equal parts frightening and alluring, and in his struggle to confront her, he inadvertently triggers the banshee’s memories. Memories of when she was a servant of his household, generations ago, named Deirdre. Deirdre claims that Ciarán’s physical touch restores her memories, and demands more. He agrees to meet by moonlight in hope of learning whose death she foretold. With every encounter, Ciarán’s attraction to Deirdre grows, setting him on a path of macabre desire. When the devastating bubonic plague befalls the Murtagh household, and Deirdre’s memories reveal a dark scandal in the family’s history, Ciarán must decide whether to stay by his family’s side in their final hours or embrace the seduction of the death-bringer.
November 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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jpgwrites.bsky.social
WHEN TIME RUNS OUT OF DEATH

🥀 Stone Butch-Femme lesbians

🥀 Chronically-ill MC

🥀 Pain Magic

🥀 If you are intolerable then I shall tolerate you

🥀 Angsty love confession

🥀 The unseen complexities of chronic pain

🥀 Tenderness vs. Rot

#A #RF #Q #questpit #LGBT #OwnVoices
A burgundy background with the texture of velvet and engravings of roses. A guide to WHEN TIME RUNS OUT OF DEATH, a queer gothic romantasy. A burgundy background with the texture of velvet and engravings of roses. The pitch in the middle: In a world where power is in the mastery of pain, a disabled healer survives devouring agonized souls; every day, she reaps despair and revels in the shadows she casts from it-until one night, she is caught wielding forbidden magic by a prince and his knight, putting her life and anonymity at risk. Faced with no option but death, she joins the dangerous quest to cure the eerie wraith-infected land from the Omen-Chaos. A burgundy background with the texture of velvet and rose engravings. Atop paper cutouts, five snippets. "She wasn't clean. She breathed wet, sloppy sounds instead of whispers. Her hunger was never tended to before it began aching. The ground never caught her when she slipped. She bloomed in the dirt, with the world pressing her harder till her mouth was filled with worms and waste. There was no moving on only running away." "No one realized how far she had drifted off humanity before it was impossible to return. By that point, Cora's inconvenience was louder than her suffering." "They spoke of safety as if it was certain. As if this delicate, ephemeral thing made of whispers and spider's web could last. It would not. Safety has dirt on its face, blood on its knuckles. Skin hangs from its nails." "Cora wanted to know if the blood on her teeth had coagulated enough to become a poem or how much longer she would have to wait." "I do not come from the same soil people grow life in, Jamie. I will never exhale life on your tongue." A burgundy background with the texture of velvet and flower engravings. Atop it, on various frames to mimic torn paper, pictures of a pomegranate, two hands reaching for each other underwater, a woman with eyes closed and tears running down her face, a knight offering their arm to a maiden.
November 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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tylerstasi.bsky.social
#QuestPit #F #Q

HURRICANE WARS x SWORD CATCHER

Amidst twisted magic and waxen leaves, a new moth queen rises...

and she's not afraid to burn her world to save it.

👑morally gray FMC
🌿volcano magic
🌋forbidden romance subplot
💫twisted political intrigue
the mothblood queen querying fantasy novel by tyler stasi art by lunipalette the mothblood queen pitch by tyler stasi the mothblood queen tropes and moodboard tyler stasi the mothblood queen comps tyler stasi
November 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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tamaratoday.bsky.social
SIX OF CROWS X WHAT WAKES THE BELLS

After his sister is cursed by a vengeful goddess, a former pickpocket must steal a relic from the most powerful man in the city to save her. But he can’t pull it off alone, and not everyone in his ragtag crew can be trusted.

#QuestPit #NA #F #BVM #POC #Q #Heist
Left to right. Top row: A foggy city with a spire in the background. The hands of a clock approaching 12. Smoke from an explosive in a building. Middle row: A man in a waistcoat pointing at something. “Tick… Tock…” A man in a waistcoat sitting down. Bottom row: Silver coins covered in blood. A group of people standing inside a clock tower. Rain on a cobblestone street.
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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tylerstasi.bsky.social
#QuestPit #W #S #H #F

Severance x PIRANESI x THE GARDEN

How far would you go to hide the person you used to be?

⚜️botanical/psychological horror
⚜️epistolary
⚜️unidentified FMC
⚜️literary-leaning

art: giuseppe arcimboldo

🍓👒🪴🕰🪑 (querying feb 2026)
fruitwip poster by tyler stasi querying feb 2026 pitch and moodboard vibes for fruitwip by tyler stasi themes and comps for fruitwip by tyler stasi
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
kotegentarri.bsky.social
A MASTERY OF SELF
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the year is 1938
and something isn't right
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an actor has lost his true identity in the many roles he's played on screen

- speculative hollywood
- friends to lovers
- eldritch horror that seeks to replace him

#questpit #W #WIP #A #H #S #RF #T
A picture of a writing pitch in the form of Netflix UI with the title, the genres Horror and Psychological Thriller, a description, and similar recommendations in the form of comparables: The Twilight Zone, Alan Wake II, Siren Queen, and Uzumaki. The background of the UI is a red velvet movie curtain with a man's hand coming through the curtain.
November 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
kotegentarri.bsky.social
THE BRIDE OF THE KING IN YELLOW
☠︎︎ ⋆₊ ♱

two lovers struggle against class and religion to be together- but can a play that turns all readers mad be their freedom?

- novelette (17k)
- eldritch horrors or insanity
- existential purpose/fate

#questpit #Q #A #H #S #RF #DR
A picture of a writing pitch in the form of Netflix UI with the title, the genres Lovecraftian Horror and Gothic Romance, a description, and similar recommendations in the form of comparables: The King in Yellow, Extasia, Pickman's Model, and Cabinet of Curiosities.
November 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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elissadickey.bsky.social
An #AgentsGuide to my gothic horromance! 🖤

THE HAUNTING OF MADDY CLARE + THE GUEST LIST

Rosie's travel to-do list:
🇮🇪 Return to Ireland
💀 Solve a murder
💚 Try not to fall for the mysterious local man
🧟‍♀️ Escape the monstrous presence stalking her

#QuestPit #A #H #R #Dis #Q
Agent's guide You have to go back Pitch: haunted by the memory of her friend's tragic death, Rosie returns to Ireland to search for answers and must team up with a grumpy but handsome local man to uncover the truth-and escape the terrifying presence that's stalking her. Blurb: "Like moonlight on a storm tossed sea, YOU HAVE TO GO BACK captivates with haunting secrets hidden just below the surface." - Paulette Kennedy, bestselling author of The Devil and Mrs. Davenport Comps: the guest list, haunting of Maddy Clare, leap year (but haunted); enemies to lovers, horromance, Gothic vibes, a haunting in ireland Mood board including the Irish coast, a cottage, woman in the water, a ghostly figure, and a couple embracing
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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kananiokelly.bsky.social
MOANA x SHADOW AND BONE

An #agentsguide to WHISPERS OF THE SEA, my #amquerying young adult fantasy.

Feat:
🌊 Hawaiian-inspired mythology
🌋 setting as a character
🌊 angry female mc

#QuestPit #YA #F #Q #OwnVoices #AgentGuide
The introduction to my young adult novel, Whispers of the Sea. The pitch: A teen girl embarks on a journey to a mysterious island where she’ll team up with a boy to uncover the whereabouts of her missing uncle. But to save him, Keahi must interfere with the King’s plans to restore power to his kingdom—except the throne was never his to claim, and the island only answers to one: the girl with a heart of fire. For fans of: Disney’s Moana, Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, and Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle
November 5, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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sonnyzappa.bsky.social
AKIRA X PARADISE LOST
Blessed be the Rich, for Heaven has been privatized.
Sixteen-year-old Ollie has led an unlucky life. Now, dead and stuck in Hell with his little sister, he’ll do anything to protect her. Even be the catalyst for a revolution against Heaven.

#QuestPit #YA
A cyberpunk moodboard
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 AM
kotegentarri.bsky.social
THOROUGHFARE ₊ ⊹ ˑ 𓂃

a religious apostle & western outlaw must work together to stop an eldritch horror spreading across the desert

- novella (26k)
- a sunshine MMC and grumpy FMC
- eldritch monsters but the true horror is humanity

#questpit #Q #A #H #S #West
A writing pitch in the UI of Netflix with the title Thoroughfare, a description of the "work", and similar recommendations as the form of comparables: Vampries of El Norte, Blood Meridian, What Moves the Dead, and Red Dead Redemption 2. The background is a blue artwork of a western city and a gothic chapel with strange smoke coming from the belltower.
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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beemorris.bsky.social
My #AgentsGuide for ✨ALICE & THE AFTERLIFE✨ #QuestPit #Q #PR

Reluctant medium Alice accidentally lands a job cleaning haunted houses & exorcising spirits...

🏡 cleaning haunted houses
🌊 ghosts by the coast
🎭 dark humour
🔪 serial killer plot
🧠 autistic herione
🌈 queer & trans rep
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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jpgwrites.bsky.social
THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH x DOWN COMES THE NIGHT x DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT x THE ARRIVAL

#RF #A #Q #LGBT #OwnVoices #questpit
A light blue background with the pitch of the book, When Time Runs Out of Death. “In a world where power is in the mastery of pain, a disabled healer survives devouring agonized souls; every day, she reaps despair and revels in the shadows she casts from it—until one day, she was caught wielding forbidden magic by a prince, putting her life and anonymity at risk.” A nine-square collage of pictures. On the left column, from top to bottom: black-and-white thorns, knight clad in armour, hand holding a sword. Middle column: two people kissing, but one is half-submerged in water; hands reaching for each other underwater; a couple dancing under the night sky. On the right column: a pomegranate with seeds splattered on a black surface, skulls, foggy and gloomy lake landscape.
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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victoriajayneoh.bsky.social
THE HONEY WITCH X LATE BLOOMER

A disabled witch hires a butch werewolf grocer to work in her failing apothecary. But when she and the grocer fall in love, a ghost torments the shop! The witch must solve the haunting to save the town and her new hot gf.

#questpit #A #FR #Q
The witch and the grocer The romance Tropes Alarra Thorne Robin Hart The pitch The comps The honey witch Late bloomer The very secret society of irregular witches Legends and lattes
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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kotegentarri.bsky.social
⋆⁺₊❅.
ADESTE FIDELES
⋆⁺₊❅.

A couple in Maryland unknowingly invite the Devil to dine with them on Christmas Eve ❄️
scottish folklore of Black Donald
❅ holiday horror novella
❅ doomed lovers
❅ religious shame, love over sin

#ghostpit #Q #A #H #HF #G
October 30, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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kotegentarri.bsky.social
𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘦 | novella

a religious apostle & western outlaw work together to stop an eldritch horror spreading across the desert 𓆈Ψ𐚁

#ghostpit #A #Q #H #G #West
a 9 image moodboard of western themes with red, yellow and orange imagery (right to left, top to bottom): a horse, a hand with flames, a creepy cowboy, a church, artwork of a western casket, doves, a body and a crow, hands with a cross made of light, and a cowgirl on her horse)
October 30, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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duaceren.bsky.social
Spirited Away x Shutter Island

Reality and fantasy blur when an anonymous invitation sends a burnt-out chocolatier spiraling to hunt down a serial killer she thought she made up as a child.

🥀Found family
🥀Feminist
🥀Ghosts

🪻Mental health rep
🪻Disability rep
🪻LGBTQIA+

#GhostPit #C #A #F #T #H #G
9x9 board of photos (top left to bottom right): dark rose bush, dark blue woods at night with fog, quote that reads, “I learned about death by being alive… or maybe I’ve tried it myself.” Starting second row: Closeup of a dragonfly wing, a girl floating in dark water with white flowers, hands reaching up from a dark lake with lily pads, a quote that reads, “we were strangers bound by a shared past, entangled in the present, with no promise of a future.” Forget-me-nots, a man and a woman dancing against a starry sky The same image from before with arrows pointing out to show tropes from the story which are: found family, haunted woods, past repeats itself, dual timeline, ghosts, repressed memories, investigation, and strong female characters. Two new images to replace the quotes from the previous board: a dark field of flowers in a forest tinted blue, a woman’s hands and body submerged under water reaching out.
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM