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krista is writing like a maniac ❦
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she's a 10 but she's a writer, reader, gemini, and a procrastinator ❦ sensitive bisexual black girl currently writing her first novel ❦ cr: house of hollow
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krista is writing like a maniac ❦ @kristaskrooked.bsky.social · Nov 18
#WritingCommunity #blackbooksky
#booksky #NA #H #T

THE BEAUTIFUL x HOUSE OF HUNGER x BLACULA

🐞set in 1974
🐞a runaway black girl
🐞a vampire lord with hidden motives
🐞a manor haunted in restless spirits
🐞a supernatural found family protecting their token human
🐞a cursed, chaos-hungry book
kristaskrooked.bsky.social
what a glorious week to be an invisigal hater omg
November 14, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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cyborgmermaid7.bsky.social
FAEBOUND X LEGENDBORN

🌙Multi POV
🌙Swords, sorcery, and subways
🌙Hidden identities
🌙Diverse folklore
🌙Secret societies

#agentsguide #questpit #A #F
An agent’s guide to Stargazer by Natasha DeHere. An Adult Urban Fantasy Stand Alone with Series Potential In the midst of a centuries-long war, elven Princess Ellery is stripped of her crown and sent on a rite of passage to earn it back within one year and one day. This is the perfect opportunity for her to see the human world. With her former crownguard and a book on human behavior as her guide, Ellery sets off. The only thing she didn't account for was the chaos that is the New York City subway system. Ellery’s situation goes from bad to worse when she discovers someone has sealed the portals. All of them. Sick of living hidden on Earth under constant threat from human discovery, The Cult of the Sevenstar seek to collapse the barrier that separates the two worlds permanently. Lost in an unfamiliar world, Ellery must put her trust in an alluring vampire and the ghost of a unicorn to help find her way back home. Themes: The Corrupting Influence of Power, Ancestral Grief, Fate vs. Free Will, Self-Discovery, Identity and Trauma, The Futility of War, Human Hubris vs. Nature’s Power, Sacrifice and Breaking Cycles Snippet: I raise this rally cry for all fellow non-humans around the world. It is time those of Gaean blood stopped passively allowing our human oppressors to defile our heritage. For too long we have lived in fear. We must not allow our magic to atrophy further. We shall bring back true magic to Terra. We will use force if necessary. Look for the signs. Await further instructions.
November 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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annahirsch.bsky.social
A DOWRY OF BLOOD x THE BACHELOR

Holland only agrees to date Dracula on TV to boost her influencer career. When producer manipulation goes too far, she tries to leave, but finds the eliminated girls haven’t been sent home—they’ve been fed on.

#questpit #W #A #H #comedy
Mood board depicting dark, campy vampire aesthetic with a silhouette of Dracula. Headline reads "Who Wants to Be Dracula's Bride" with tagline "This season's to die for".  
November 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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jenknowsprose.bsky.social
ALCHEMY OF A BLOOD MOON 🌙
The dreams that once consoled wall-flower Selene have mutated into blood drenched nightmares. Now she must seek the guidance of her coven and forgive the man that betrayed her—or be swallowed alive in the dark. #questpit #q #pr #litagents #amquerying #WriteSky #agentguide
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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notonlyicarus.bsky.social
celebrating #questpit with a new #agentguide !!
Summer 1920. 8 children. 1 house. 1 games master. He’s a kid too, but this is his house, and it answers to him alone. Trapped in his games, they’ll have to get creative if they want to survive.
🐊 RevPit 25 winner
🐊 big 5 editor interest
#Q #MG #H
green tree grove in the background. At the top, Green on black, it says KNOWING THE TWINS with an agent’s guide right underneath. lower left black paint swipe with green writing says: Upper MG Horror, multiple POVs, 1920s setting. lower right black paint swipe with green writing says: #RevPit 2025 winner, big 5 editor interest. dark green background, title says THE PITCH. on the left are two green moodboards. the top one has weeping willows reaching water, a hand reaching from a tree trunk, a lake surrounded by trees, hands reaching for each other, a house surrounded by trees and a lake, someone running out of sight in a maze, a lake surrounded by trees, candlesticks on tree branches, and a pier jutting out into water. The bottom one has a hand reaching through tree bark; painting of Icarus as he falls by Gowy; a hand reaching to grasp berries; a lightbulb attracting butterflies; a tree grove; a piano in a greenhouse; Houasse painting of Daphne’s hand growing foliage; painting of crows on a branch; hands reaching through lily pads. on the left, over a white drawing of a crocodile: Summer, 1920. Eight children must play 14-year-old Alistair’s dangerous games, where understanding him may be the only way to outpace him—and escape the summer alive. How do you survive a puppet master when you’re his marionette? light green background, title at the bottom centre says THE COMPS with tree drawings on either side. at the top centre are three pictures of three book covers. THE WRONG WAY HOME by Kate O’Shaughnessy has an arrow saying “internally-driven conflict & revelatory abuse”. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding has an arrow saying “adult-free environment & emergency hierarchy”. NOT QUITE A GHOST by Anne Ursu has an arrow saying “psychological stakes”. dark green background. title in the top centre is THE THEMES. underneath is a list: abandonment, sibling opposites, parentification, reclaiming girlhood, dangers of a saviour complex, wanting to be closer to the monster, how to survive abuse, the ways fear transforms you, puberty a loss of freedom. behind the list is a drawing of a weeping willow. on the right is a drawing of a Manor House. on the left are drawings of an old 1920s phone, some berries and fire.
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 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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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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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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jenniferluce.bsky.social
MEXICAN GOTHIC X CRIMSON PEAK

A biracial woman returns to her birthplace in S. Korea where she must choose between unearthing her family's history of disappearances—and the truth buried in her grandmother's garden—or become the next woman claimed by the its dark history.

#questpit #A #F #H #W
When Seo-Yun returns to her estranged and ailing grandmother’s island estate to investigate her family’s history of disappearances, she finds the once-illustrious house steeped in rot and the prized garden now withered and dying. As Seo-Yun's physical and mental health deteriorate, her grandmother’s inexplicably improves. The decay in the house mysteriously begins to heal, while creeping vines from the garden hungrily spread throughout the halls, whispering warnings of a faceless ghost that draws closer each passing night. On the verge of her mind and body unraveling, she must unearth generations of her family’s secrets—and the truth buried in her grandmother’s garden—before she becomes the next woman claimed by its dark history. Photo grid: statue covered in ivy, a woman staring into the forest, a woman covered in a sheet, a person wrapped in ivy, a picture of a woman's face scratched out, a woman standing in fog, a moth on a hand, a person sitting in the dark, a hand wrapped in ivy
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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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
kristaskrooked.bsky.social
#questpit #A #F #W #blackbooksky

ARCANE x MORTAL KOMBAT

☀️heavily mel medarda inspired fmc
☀️how can you protect us when you destroy everything you touch?
☀️fmc love interest controls nature and earth
☀️are you a phoenix or someone deranged enough to eat the sun?!
☀️fmc hates the sea for some reason
November 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
kristaskrooked.bsky.social
#questpit #W #A #F #DF #blackbooksky

BERSERK x THRONE OF GLASS x TSDS

🔮 black fmc is the heiress of an elite sorceress line
🔮 fmc evil sorceressed so hard she resurrected a dead tyrant
🔮 magic system is jacked up and you may be the cause — congrats
🔮 magical politics between who deserves magic
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
kristaskrooked.bsky.social
#questpit #W #F #A

FOURTH WING x MULAN x THE POPPY WAR x DRAGON BALL

🐉black fmc is forced into a war for gods
🐉chinese, greek, and african folklore mixture
🐉chinese prince with no morals wanting to avenge warrior race of slaughter
🐉a god with no worshippers is similar to a king with no kingdom
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
kristaskrooked.bsky.social
#questpit #W #A #F #blackbooksky

ACOTAR x THE CRUEL PRINCE x DAUGHTER OF THE MOON GODDESS x AVATAR: TWOW

🫐black fae, elven, and dragons
🫐all three are at war with each other
🫐half fae and half elven mc who is looking for her family
🫐gatekeeping warlocks
🫐"This society grows uglier by the day."
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
kristaskrooked.bsky.social
#questpit #W #A #F #blackbooksky

BALDUR’S GATE 3 x GAME OF THRONES x FAIRY TAIL

🧝🏾‍♀️black mc lost her memory and is forced to go on journey
🧝🏾‍♀️forced hero trope
🧝🏾‍♀️"get out of my tent you stink!"
🧝🏾‍♀️found family
🧝🏾‍♀️on a time crunch the world might be ending + a lot of side quests
🧝🏾‍♀️ multiple love interests
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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maddieisbooked.bsky.social
PHANTASMA x NOSFERATU

✮ Dark God of Night
✮ Haunted FMC
✮ Dark academia
✮ Sinister reflection
✮ Cosmic love
✮ Paranormal bargains
✮ Spicy NA

⤷ #editors interact if you’re interested!

#GhostPit #PitDark #OS #agented #RF #G #onsub #editorsguide #WritingCommunity
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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tylerstasi.bsky.social
#GhostPit #W #Spec

Severance x PIRANESI x THE GARDEN

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

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

art: giuseppe arcimboldo

🍓👒🪴🕰🪑
fruitwip poster by tyler stasi fruitwip pitch and moodboard fruitwip themes and comps
October 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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livalcott.bsky.social
👻EVERY CRUEL CORPSE is a YA/NA urban fantasy about two reapers who kill instead of guide for a government in the afterlife, forced to perform magical manipulation rituals when they begin to be haunted by the ghosts of their victims. #GhostPit #Q #F #PN
October 30, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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ashtonjthomas.bsky.social
NINTH HOUSE x FLEABAG

Haunted by a magical parasite whispering in her head, a dropout returns to the university where her best friend died, while the remnants of fairy-tales rot in jars and the failing barrier between worlds demands the truth she’s buried.

#GhostPit #Q #A #F #H
Moodboard featuring nine images, including: top left an image of a London Underground train in motion, top middle is an artitst's interpretation of fairy taxidermy, pinned similarly to an insect within a shadow box, top right is a man sat in a wheelchair, middle left is a blonde woman who's face is in shadow, middle image is the shadow of a monstrous hand grabbing a person's head, middlie right is a group of five people standing in the shadows of an old archway, bottom left is a pale hand coming out of a dark wooden wardrobe, bottom middle is is foggy Big Ben on Westminster Bridge, bottom right is two blurry people running down a marble staircase
October 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
kristaskrooked.bsky.social
#GhostPit #A #W #F #M #S #T #PN #blackbooksky

THE WOLF AMONG US ❦ ONCE UPON A TIME

📖set in the late 90s-early 00s
📖red riding hood x big bad wolf
📖black mc who is struggling to write her next book
📖morally grey sheriff "protecting" the city
📖realm hopping to solve mysteries and save fairy tales
October 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
kristaskrooked.bsky.social
#W #A #F #U #GhostPit

THE BOYS x INVINCIBLE x BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHT

🍯a higher being blessing and cursing people with powers
🍯bisexual black mc who will bring justice no matter the cost
🍯hero killer with a list
🍯crazed superheroes and sane villains
🍯4th wall breaks
🍯pro hero or pro human
October 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
kristaskrooked.bsky.social
#W #A #GhostPit #SF #SFF #DS #blackbooksky

HIGH ON LIFE ❦ CYBERPUNK ❦ OVERWATCH

👽blue-haired bounty hunter mc who is very chaotic
👽killer alien creatures who feed off of emotion and chaos
👽democratic and republican politics
👽blue-skinned alien princesses
👽mad scientists everywhere
October 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
kristaskrooked.bsky.social
#A #W #HF #PN #S #GhostPit

RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 x DJANGO x THE BLOOD MERIDIAN x SINNERS

🦌former slave mc turned outlaw
🦌night creatures hunting innocents
🦌outlaw gang wars/outlaw girl gang
🦌native american monster hunters
🦌why are you a deer masquerading as a wolf?
October 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
kristaskrooked.bsky.social
#NA #W #T #S #GhostPit #M

JENNIFER'S BODY + GINGER SNAPS + THE LOVE WITCH

💋ur biracial fmc is unfriendly and evil
💋a book full of evil lesbians
💋witch has possessed the body to kill her ex lover
💋toxic female friendships
💋"You were mine before you were anyone else's!"
💋tons of gaslighting
October 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
kristaskrooked.bsky.social
#A #W #H #PN #S #GhostPit

THEM x DON’T WORRY DARLING x LOVECRAFT COUNTRY

🍷unreliable narrator
🍷set in mid-50s
🍷out of body experiences with a side of body horror
🍷did you just eat glass?
🍷a mobster husband but at least he cute
🍷being black in white dominated areas
🍷do not blink
October 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM