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Lola | Horror Author 👩🏻‍💻👻 @lolagracebooks.bsky.social · May 7
An agent’s guide to Wraith, a dark academia speculative horror novel about fear, desperation, change, and hope.
When Sibyl finds herself cracking under the pressure of the program she worked so hard to get into, she’s willing to take help regardless of what it may cost her.
#questpit #w #a #s #h
cover slide with the title “Wraith: An Agent’s Guide” in the center and the words “Everything is fine” to the left of the title and “You love it here” to the right of the title. The top of the page reads “75K word paranormal horror” On the left side is a pitch which reads “Sibyl got everything she ever wanted when she was accepted into an elite graduate program at one of the world’s top universities, but once there finds herself desperately struggling to keep up with both academic and social responsibilities. An infuriatingly persistent shadow in the corner of her apartment threatens to send her spiraling, until it offers salvation. If she lets it in for just a little while, it takes care of all of her work for her and asks for nothing but a few hours in control in return. What’s the worst that could happen?” On the right side is a Query blurb which reads “At the tender age of 24, all of Sibyl’s dreams have come true. After spending countless hours revising, volunteering, writing, and interviewing, she’s made it into her top choice graduate program. Her only choice graduate program. She likes it there. She does, really. She’s not just saying that because she worked tirelessly to get there and that would all be pointless if she didn’t like it. It’s hard, but that’s fine. She knew there would be growing pains, but there just seem to be more and more and more of them. Just as she starts to feel herself cracking, help comes from the most unexpected place of all; a mysterious shadow in the corner of her apartment that seemed to appear out of nowhere. It does all her work for her. All it takes in return? A few hours where she is not herself. Far fewer hours than she would have spent doing the work. She doesn’t know what happens while she’s gone, but it’s a small price to pay nonetheless. “ For fans of Bunny by Mona Awad, A House with Good Bones by T Kingfisher, The Lamb by Lucy Rose. Themes of Dealing with anxiety & depression Processing grief Paranoia Toxic competition Platonic soulmates Family relationships Dark academia Key elements of Imposing gothic setting Unique paranormal encounters Unreliable narrator Surrealist bending of reality Strong imagery Excerpt reading “You one of the grad students?" The driver's voice wraps around me and cloaks me in warmth. "Yeah, how did you know?" I'm surprised she’s gotten it. I'm much younger than most of the other people in my program, most people mistake me for an undergrad. Sometimes I wonder if there’s a reason no one else is my age. "A little early in the semester to already be spending all night at the library otherwise." She looks at me in the mirror and smiles softly, the corners of her eyes and bridge of her nose crinkling ever so slightly. It reminds me of my mother, and for a brief moment I am a child again, looking at the rear view mirror in the back seat, and she looks back at the road and it's gone and the air is sucked out of my lungs. Immediately, I want it back so badly that a great yawning chasm of despair opens in my chest. I am simultaneously collapsing in on myself and bursting at the seams. The crack in my chest grows and grows, splitting first my ribcage and then my spine right down the center before they crash back together, the force fusing them into little mountains of bone. "I procrastinated pretty bad. Learned my lesson." The words burn my throat. I pray with everything I am that she’ll look up again, let me be a child for one more fleeting moment. But the moment is gone. "I hear that." She doesn't look up again. She keeps her eyes on the road. Did she ever look up in the first place, or did I imagine it? I spent too long in the basement in the library, too long working without a break today. My brain is fried. I haven't called my mom in three days, I'm just feeling guilty and it's manifesting in weird ways. This is normal. This is just a growing pain. Everything is fine.
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thatcatpurcell.bsky.social
The MAGICIANS x THE RAVEN BOYS.

#questpit #W #A #F

The Lady of the Lake and Merlin bump into each other in the modern age. Not just meet cute but a meet-should-we-resurrect-King-Arthur?

Tropes:

Queer Love
Found Family
Destiny and Fate
Small Magic, Big Impact
Slow Burn
Dark Academia
Picture collage includes three people nuzzling, three friends running and jumping through the air, a moss grown stone path in the forest, a woman with a lantern and white dress, and an English Manor House.
May 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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erichardsonbooks.bsky.social
🙏🏻Writer Hannah Chambers was just joking when she became the internet’s most infamous trad wife (or at least that’s what she told herself).

But as the bit spirals and her following grows (along with her milkmaid dress collection), keeping the lie alive might cost her everything.🙏🏻

#questpit #a #os
A square moodboard with TRAD in the middle and praying hands. The other squares are idyllic photos of trad wife life, with running children, freshly baked bread, and women in milkmaid dresses.
May 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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elainebuckner.bsky.social
Luna's rearview mirror reflects a shattered life but Thornfield Hotel promises a fresh start. As concierge she's swept into a world of secrets, seduction & murder w/ the enigmatic E Rochester at its center & her heart & survival in the crosshairs.

#QuestPit #Q #A #R #H #T #RF
May 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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judithlwebster.bsky.social
One Dark Window x Divergent
The most dangerous game of all is the one played by the heart.
#Questpit #Q #A #F
❤️Dark Alice in Wonderland reimagining
♠️A fate they both wish to escape
♦️A secret Rebellion led by a prince
♣️It takes a monster to destroy one
🃏A wild card
May 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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kathleengraeme.bsky.social
SALTBURN X SECRET HISTORY
After a death on campus, the prestigious men’s club opens its doors to one reporter to observe their secret rituals but what seems harmless quickly turns sinister and she’s the only one who can see it.

Not all gods are meant to be worshiped
#questpit #A #T
First row: left: southern church on fire, middle: man having his soul sucked out from dark entity, right: young man taking selfie with a marble bust Middle row: left: man holding up another young man who looks wounded, middle: dark background with white text “god may judge you but his sins outnumber your own”, right: man holding a water logged woman in a dress by a river Bottom row: left: PowerPoint saying “we are fucked” with someone holding a pointer to the words, middle: two girls leaning on each other in the back of a car, right; painting of a bride kissing a dark angel
May 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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knturner-author.bsky.social
Agent's guide to THE JOURNEY TO THE END OF THINGS.

A grieving daughter has the chance to fix the mistakes of her past. But is she willing to risk her soul to do it?
✨Greek reimagining
✨Devil's bargain
✨Demigod-mortal romance

#questpit #q #a #f #agentsguide #amquerying
May 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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weepingoverwords.bsky.social
Told in dual, first-person, present tense with the luster and poetic grit of a Springsteen ballad and the tenderness and dread of Stephen King’s CUJO, FEEDING GROUNDS is complete at 99,000 words.

#q #questpit #H #PR #agentguide
Feeding Grounds title in large font 99k word upmarket horrormance A new American folk tale Coffee rings stain the paper like phases of the moon A receipt is tossed to the side A bandaid in the shape of a cross Two coffee stains look like mingled phases of the moon. Text: The pitch: It's the Fourth of July weekend at the county fair and Timothy Redman runs into Dandy Michaels, the last person he ever expected to see back in Easter, New Mexico. Her return threatens the stability he's only recently gained after a wolf fatally attacked his wife two years ago-an act that fueled the agrarian town's hatred of wolves. What the town doesn't know is that Timothy's three-year-old son, Scout, has turned into a wolf every full moon since he was one...and that the first night Scout tuned into a wolf was the last night he had a mother. As Timothy's strict routine deteriorates just as the town's significance on the map, he and Dandy discover what's actually been eating at the heart of their town all along, but will it be too late for Scout? THE HORROR EXCERPT "I reckon it's hardly a confession when you leave out the details that make it a sin. What I said wasn't the worst of it. To leave out that my only son attacked his mother in fear, afraid of what he'd become to the point that his alarm mauled her to death, was to tell a mere fable. Though my penitence remains real and unwavering, my confession is unsuitable and fabricated. "He's three and a half," | answer preemptively, unaware how hungry I am to disclose the answers to unspoken questions. I realize, now that l'm here, it's not opening the latch that's troublesome, but closing it." List of comp titles and their covers: From left to right: The Bear tv show Jaws by Peter Benchley When The Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy Stranger Things Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
May 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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alizagame.bsky.social
When Leah, the pastor's daughter, goes missing, Brooke doesn't just have to prove foul play was involved — she has to prove to her cult-like church that Leah existed in the first place.
#questpit #ya #querying #LGBT #writingcommunity
May 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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erinaries.bsky.social
The World of No: A dark damp nightmare place or suburbia? That she can't quite decide which is worse may be Phoebe's biggest flaw. #questpit #A #SPEC #Q
Top, l to r: a shadowy figure in a doorway, an industrial staircase, a group of blurred figures. Middle: l to r: headlights on a foggy road, an exit sign seen through a heart-shaped window, the side of an office building in green light. Bottom: a dark forest, a hand pressing against glass, a figure in a distant doorway.
May 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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hlcarterauthor.bsky.social
SEPTEMBER HOUSE X HOW TO SELL A HAUNTED HOUSE
The sinister creature under Granny's basement stairs thrives in darkness. But when Granny is on her deathbed and begs for a special box, 39 y/o Brenda must battle her way through the basement horrors to find it.
#QuestPit #Short #Q #A #H
AN ABSTRACT BLACK AND ORANGE BACKGROUND WITH WHITE TEXT THAT READS: [THE SEPTEMBER HOUSE X HOW TO SELL A HAUNTED HOUSE], Granny is on her deathbed. Her final wish: a faded blue box. Brenda must venture into Granny’s basement to get it, where the creature of her darkest nightmares awaits. Battling possessed dolls & screaming portraits, she must find the courage to ultimately fight for her soul., UNDER THE STAIRS, A SHORT STORY BY HEATHER CARTER AN ABSTRACT BLACK AND ORANGE BACKGROUND WITH WHITE TEXT THAT READS: "Darkness should not growl. It shouldn’t rasp or seethe. Just the absence of light—that’s all it is. All it’s supposed to be. But the darkness in Granny’s basement is a different kind of darkness. It’s thick, like a black tar that envelopes you the moment the lights flip off—coating your skin and eyes, stealing away all that’s reassuring and safe and good. Worst of all? It remembers you." UNDER THE STAIRS, A SHORT STORY BY HEATHER CARTER A nine grid moodboard featuring black and white ghostly images, basement stairs, a decrepit house, and a clawed hand.
May 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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brianbyrnewrites.bsky.social
What to expect from GENERATION ZOMBIE, my 86K YA thriller/horror:

😬 Chronically anxious main character
🤬 Toxic father-daughter relationship
🕵️‍♀️ Journalist enemies to lovers
💀 Armageddon-causing cult
📲 Social commentary like BLACK MIRROR

#QuestPit #W #YA #T #H
A composite image featuring two side-by-side graphics: a TikTok “For You” page on the left and an Instagram profile page on the right. Both graphics feature imagery designed to evoke the mood of YA thriller novel GENERATION ZOMBIE: shadowy figures trying to break down a door; a pile of newspapers; a disembodied hand on a pane of glass; and a phone showing a grid of various social media app icons.
May 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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saintserene.bsky.social
SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER X SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

A graverobber is hired to find a missing corpse. The corpse has other plans.

#QuestPit #A #F #Q #H
A mood board with various rusty places covered in greenery, along with flowers and preraphaelite paintings.
May 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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bloodydevotion.bsky.social
ninth house x sinners x jordan peele🧠🔬👁️🩸 #QuestPit
~ eat the rich (& the colonizers)
~ abandoned by God trauma support group
~ eldritch horrors inside queer Black student vessels
~ a prayer a day keeps the hunger away
~ don't stare into the field. you won't like what stares back.
a moodboard collage in a dark brown academic palette featuring hands in the air, gold grillz fangs, a purse full of of diet coke, a creepy stoplight, angel wings, a door that says hell, open books on a desk, and a sign that says there will be no miracles here
May 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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jamesanthonywriter.bsky.social
DRACULA awakes from slumber in 1942 to find the Nazis storming across Europe, his brides drenched in dreams of destroying the patriarchal war-sickness of men, and an ancient, cursed relic in the hands of a newborn Polish vampire.

#QuestPit #A #H #F
Prospective book cover featuring the widened fangs of a vampire biting down on the title: Dracula 1942
May 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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qziontgipson.bsky.social
🍃 WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL X LEGENDBORN ✨ = THE ROOTS OF DESTINY 🌷

W/ 14 agent and indie press requests, it features

🌷 enchanted forest
✨ BIPOC rep
🍃 plant magic system
🌷 shadow monsters
🍃 found family
🌷 botany boarding school
✨dark secrets

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F #SF
A mood board consisting of 9 square photographs with a green, blue, and, pink, yellow and white color scheme. In the center, there is a teenage Black girl in an enchanted garden, with the photos surrounding her illustrating the beauty within it: a feeding hummingbird, a calm lake, baby ducklings, a resting butterfly, and magical white and pink blooms.
May 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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amandacarbonell25.bsky.social
Meet my GOOSEBUMPS x STRANGER THINGS MG Horror in this editor's guide 💗

So beyond happy to say that this project is out #OS
#questpit #MG #H #PR #AG
The background is of a dark forest with low-hanging vines. The text reads: AN EDITOR'S TO BEWARE THE SOUL COLLECTOR By: Amanda Carbonell Agent: Sandra Proudman Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency The background is of a dark forest with low-hanging vines. The text reads: THE PITCH GOOSEBUMPS x STRANGER THINGS An evil cloaked figure has come to Dark Falls, NY with plans of destroying not only the town that betrayed him 300 years ago but also the family that led to his demise. Ghost-seer Emiliana “Emmy” Carrasquillo (13) pairs up with her aunt, dog, the town sheriff, and the cute but odd new kid in the hopes of stopping this big bad before she loses both her home & her afterlife. The background is of a dark forest with low-hanging vines. The text reads: (left side) COMPS The images are of the following books: The Otherwoods by Justine Pucella Winans Nightmare Island by Shakirah Bourne Small Spaces by Katherine Arden (Right side text) TROPES (left column below) Good vs. Evil Family Curses Being Forced to Grow Up Cute dog bff who doesn’t get hurt Eco-horror (right column below) Fighting EL CUCO X ferryman for the dead Ghost seer/medium (Haunted) Small Town Overcoming Fears First Crushes The image on the left side is a commissioned artwork by the talented Joleanart. It features a young girl with dark brown wavy hair, tan skin, and brown eyes wearing a dark denim jacket, appearing frightened. She is in the middle of a forest with twisted trees and vines with glowing eyes watching her. The text on the right reads: As I give up on waiting and start to cross the street, the leaves rustle from above as the wind whistles past my ears. A shiver skates up my spine like before as I take a deep breath in. When I exhale, a small misty cloud leaves my mouth. A bell dings from the bookstore in the distance and I freeze. Then turn. A man is standing on the small set of stairs that lead up to the doorway. He’s steady on the one closest to the door until he squints at me. I swallow hard. This guy isn’t like the others. He isn’t a person. Not anymore. He’s a ghost. A hollow. BY: AMANDA CARBONELL AGENT: SANDRA PROUDMAN GALLT & ZACKER LITERARY AGENCY
May 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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jhelenwrites.bsky.social
A STUDY IN DROWNING x A LANGUAGE OF DRAGONS

an enchanted dragon flame ravages two countries & rival dragon scholar & son of dragon slayers ally to find a cure. but an occult group wants the flame, too, forcing them to choose: save each other or burn.

#questpit #ya #f #w
May 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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gwenvines.writes.fyi
ARCANE x BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN x RIPE
All Jim owns when he arrives at the Institute is a battered briefcase & pair of decaying boots. Little does he know that before classes end, he'll pack that blood-drenched briefcase to flee a nightmare of his own making.
#questpit #Q #A #F
Image description Digital painting of a blond man wearing a tank top and a toolbelt from behind, his hand on his hip. In the bottom right is the text SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines. In the upper left is the text "Adult STEM Postgrad Academic Fantasy, 107k words". In a green box in the upper right titled FIRST LINE is the text "To be Techniker was to be masochistic. Technikers worshiped at the altar of exhaustion, taking sick pride in toiling over a workbench or anvil until their bodies failed them. Glory lay in suffering for their craft, in creating small miracles powered as much by their own blood and sweat as the aether that underwove existence." Image description Pitch card for SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines. Background top image is an anatomical diagram of a torso with left arm outstretched, bottom image is of dark nested ferns. Atop the image is a digital painting of a man with curly dark hair and medium skin tone, wearing dark green clothing and a gold hoop earring in his right ear, looking away from the camera. His hand rests atop a text box reading "When Institute graduate student Jim invents a device that could revolutionize medicine, his intoxicating suitemate Bash warns him it could be weaponized—and stops at nothing to prove his point. Are Jim's degree & the lives he could save worth staining his conscience?" In the text box is the author's name and "Adult dark academic fantasy, 107k words." Below the textbox are cover images of the Netflix show Arcane (with Viktor's face), BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN by M.L. Wang, THE TWO DOCTORS GORSKI by Isaac Fellman, DON'T LET THE FOREST IN, by C. G. Drews, and RIPE by Sarah Rose Etter.
May 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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demri18.bsky.social
An #agentsguide #pitchcard of
THE RESURRECTED KING

Tropes:
☀️ Forbidden Romance
☀️ Egyptian Mythology
☀️ 1920’s Egypt
☀️ Dis Rep
☀️ Archaeology
☀️ “Coming-of-Rage” FMC

Inspired by my travels while residing in Egypt 🇪🇬

#questpit #Q #HF
May 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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jenniferluce.bsky.social
Wicked whispers in the back of her mind, terrifying changes to her body, & haunting hallucinations—a woman must find a way to break her curse with a fox spirit or risk turning into something monstrous.

🇰🇷 Korean folklore
🙊 Body & Psychological horror
💔 Forbidden romance

#QuestPit #A #H #R #PR #W
Background of shadows with pictures of a silhouette of a woman with red eyes, claws, a silhouette with ears, smoke coming out of someone's face, and a thunder storm
May 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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blakeseabourn.bsky.social
JADE CITY x THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY

When his father is killed by a bloodline curse, the disowned heir to a blood-magic crime family has three days to work with his estranged siblings to find the murderer and break the curse—before it kills them too.

#QuestPit #W #A #F #AgentsGuide
This is a teaser image for my adult fantasy novel. It reads, "Blood Bastards: an adult crime fantasy novel by J.V. Seabourn." This image includes the pitch for my adult fantasy crime novel, Blood Bastards. The pitch reads: Seth and Crispin Scurlock were raised as blood bastards—orphans taken in for their magical potential by one of the city's most notorious blood-magic crime bosses. Four years ago, after a job gone wrong, Crispin sided with their father and Seth left the family business; neither brother has ever forgiven the other. But then their father is murdered. What's more, he was hit with a bloodline curse before his death—and since Seth and Crispin took a blood oath to guarantee their family loyalty when they were young, they're just as vulnerable to the curse as their father's biological children. Now the estranged siblings will have three days to sort through their father's many enemies, find his murderer, and break the bloodline spell before it kills them too. Assuming they don't kill each other first, of course.
May 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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authorlulualba.bsky.social
~THE NORTH STAR QUEEN~

Soledad has been forced to do things all her life. Forced to marry a man twice her age. Forced to train to gain magick she didn’t know she had. So when her ‘captor,’ Callum, gives her the chance to choose things for herself, she takes it.

#A #F #QuestPit
May 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM