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Natalie is ✨ writing a new thing✨
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Freelance editor and writer of historical fiction. Longlisted @write-mentor.bsky.social Novel Award 2025. Top 100 @bathnovelaward.co.uk 2024. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ally.
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Natalie is ✨ writing a new thing✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · Nov 5
When a lonely stained-glass artist is invited to restore a set of windows depicting the haunting story of Tristram and Isolde, he must reassemble the fractured pieces of his memory before his own budding romance ends in tragedy.

#questpit #A #G #T #Q
Image of a woman’s face half displayed and cut away to reveal a skull. Floral vines frame the central image. The text reads ‘Woodbine’ with the d and b forming a heart.
natalielouise83.bsky.social
I just pre-ørdered my own copy of this beautiful book! ❤️❤️

If you liked Titanic, you’ll LOVE this…
rebeccaacarter.bsky.social Rebecca A Carter @rebeccaacarter.bsky.social · Nov 6
Long time no post but I'm thrilled to reveal the cover of my debut, An Inheritance of Lies, coming out on May 5, 2026 with Lake Union!

You can pre-ørder now everywhere and àdd on Goodreads!

🔗 below
November 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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kvanamburg.bsky.social
🌿💀✨

A flower-seller inherits a countryside manor — overrun by 73 dogs, countless dangerous ghosts, and one disgraced celebrity necromancer.

To keep her new home, she must restore the house & work with the necromancer to expel the ghosts… before she becomes a haunting, too.

#questpit #A #F #Q
A collage of mainly black and green images, featuring skulls, candles, dogs, books, flowers, cottages, forests, and ghosts. There are some graphics on it that show dog paw prints, a teacup, and a moon. The text reads: Houndstooth Hollow: When Artemisia inherits a manor from the mother she never met, she expects newfound wealth and a lovely home in the countryside — not a crumbling gothic manor overrun by 73 dogs, countless dangerous ghosts, and one disgraced celebrity necromancer. In order to pay back her debts and save her new home, she must brave the debutante world to secure a fortune and reluctantly enlist the help of the necromancer, whose dark magic represents everything she’s tried so hard to leave behind. A collage of mostly black and green images, featuring old manor houses, crumbling greenhouses, lots of dogs, and quaint cozy cottages in the sunlight. There are some graphics, such as dog paw prints, a moth, a dog face, and stars. The text reads that this is for fans of gothic cottagecore, afternoon tea & midnight rituals, sentient manor, occult academia magic system, necromancy, forced proximity (haunted house), floriography, haunt the rich, cemetery picnics, and haunting as metaphor. There are also comp titles listed: Belladonna, Half a Soul, The Spellshop, Sorcery of Thorns, The Haunting of Hill House, Crimson Peak, The Addams Family, Tim Burton, India Holton, whimsical macabre, and books where the dogs don’t die.
November 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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kvanamburg.bsky.social
CRIMSON PEAK x HGTV

💐 A flower-seller turned debutante who wants a home
💀 A disgraced celebrity necromancer trying to resurrect his reputation
🏚️ A crumbling gothic manor crawling with ghosts
🐶 …and 73 dogs

#questpit #A #F #Q
A collage of mainly black and green images, featuring skulls, candles, dogs, books, flowers, cottages, forests, and ghosts. There are some graphics on it that show dog paw prints, a teacup, and a moon. The text reads: Houndstooth Hollow: When Artemisia inherits a manor from the mother she never met, she expects newfound wealth and a lovely home in the countryside — not a crumbling gothic manor overrun by 73 dogs, countless dangerous ghosts, and one disgraced celebrity necromancer. In order to pay back her debts and save her new home, she must brave the debutante world to secure a fortune and reluctantly enlist the help of the necromancer, whose dark magic represents everything she’s tried so hard to leave behind. A collage of mostly black and green images, featuring old manor houses, crumbling greenhouses, lots of dogs, and quaint cozy cottages in the sunlight. There are some graphics, such as dog paw prints, a moth, a dog face, and stars. The text reads that this is for fans of gothic cottagecore, afternoon tea & midnight rituals, sentient manor, occult academia magic system, necromancy, forced proximity (haunted house), floriography, haunt the rich, cemetery picnics, and haunting as metaphor. There are also comp titles listed: Belladonna, Half a Soul, The Spellshop, Sorcery of Thorns, The Haunting of Hill House, Crimson Peak, The Addams Family, Tim Burton, India Holton, whimsical macabre, and books where the dogs don’t die.
November 6, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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kvanamburg.bsky.social
🥀💀🌷

CRIMSON PEAK x BRIDGERTON x HGTV

A flower-seller turned debutante must work with a disgraced celebrity necromancer to restore a crumbling gothic manor full of ghosts + 73 dogs.

🌿 Gothic Cottagecore
💀 Necromancy
🏚️ Forced proximity
💐 Floriography
👻 Haunt the rich
🐶 MANY dogs

#questpit #A #F #Q
A collage of mainly black and green images, featuring skulls, candles, dogs, books, flowers, cottages, forests, and ghosts. There are some graphics on it that show dog paw prints, a teacup, and a moon. The text reads: Houndstooth Hollow: When Artemisia inherits a manor from the mother she never met, she expects newfound wealth and a lovely home in the countryside — not a crumbling gothic manor overrun by 73 dogs, countless dangerous ghosts, and one disgraced celebrity necromancer. In order to pay back her debts and save her new home, she must brave the debutante world to secure a fortune and reluctantly enlist the help of the necromancer, whose dark magic represents everything she’s tried so hard to leave behind. A collage of mostly black and green images, featuring old manor houses, crumbling greenhouses, lots of dogs, and quaint cozy cottages in the sunlight. There are some graphics, such as dog paw prints, a moth, a dog face, and stars. The text reads that this is for fans of gothic cottagecore, afternoon tea & midnight rituals, sentient manor, occult academia magic system, necromancy, forced proximity (haunted house), floriography, haunt the rich, cemetery picnics, and haunting as metaphor. There are also comp titles listed: Belladonna, Half a Soul, The Spellshop, Sorcery of Thorns, The Haunting of Hill House, Crimson Peak, The Addams Family, Tim Burton, India Holton, whimsical macabre, and books where the dogs don’t die.
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
natalielouise83.bsky.social
TYSM for all the #questpit love on these two! I’m retiring them now to focus on my WIP, which I hope to pitch in the new year, but you gave them an amazing send-off. 🥹

If I promised you a boost and I missed your pitch, LMK. Work was crazy yesterday!

#WritingCommunity #amquerying
November 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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laurelhillbooks.bsky.social
GOING BACK TO WHEN WE BEGAN

Beautyland x Five First Chances

Life takes a turn for Kat when she (and the world) finds out two extraterrestrial species—one good, one evil—are responsible for our existence. And the evil one wants this life to be Kat’s last.

👻👽🛸🏳️‍🌈

#questpit #A #UP #Spec #LGBT #Q
November 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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castlemantra.bsky.social
To win her best friend's love and heal her uncle, May will risk everything to steal HealthCorp's miracle pill. But when the CEO's disinherited son offers to help - and teach her the art of seduction - she'll learn just how deep a stain power and control can leave on a soul. #QuestPit #A #SFF #R #Q
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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authort-lee.bsky.social
MARTYR! x THE NAMES but isekai

Max sees no future for himself until death reshapes him into a noble in an alternate ancient East Asia. As Yoon, he has it all: status, affection, & a prediction that his love is lethal. Is life worth living if it comes at others’ suffering?
#QuestPit #Q #A #LF #HF #F
This is a flowery graphic with post-reincarnation Yoon on the left and pre-reincarnation Max on the right, but turned at an angle with their character artworks facing each other. Above fancy robe-wearing Yoon there are lines that read: In the stillness of death, he immortalized her as his ever-loving, ever-living flower. It would be an eternity of affection. Above florist-uniformed Max are the lines: It wouldn't be so bad if this were the end, he thought... In their family, inconvenient things were silently buried. Especially death.
November 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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sadisticaurthor.bsky.social
SINNERS X HANNIBAL X I FEED HER TO THE BEAST When Virginia Bulle kills her ex-boyfriend, she decides to open a restaurant to serve his remains. This leads her to Calypso Raines' doorstep, which opens up a new recipe of the prices we pay to protect family.

#Questpit #Q #A #H
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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jennleefrances.bsky.social
DON'T LET THE FOREST IN x BENT NECK LADY

Simone's risking Jadriel's Life & Nina's Afterlife

🖤AWARD Best Submission SCBWI MayFest 2025
🖤WINNER WriteHive Mentorship 2025
🖤Big 5 Editor Requests

GRIEF-RAGE-POWER
Romance & Revenge
A NEW URBAN LEGEND #TheEastRiverWraith
#YA #S Feminist #H #R #QuestPit
November 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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joyiswriting.bsky.social
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 8:35 AM
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demri18.bsky.social
WEYWARD x THE BEWITCHING

When two witches in different times find themselves battling the same ancient forest spirit, they must use magic to communicate and find a way to save their covens from destruction.

#questpit #Q #A #H #S
9 grid image with a red-brown color effect. Horizontal Row 1: silhouette of a girl in front of a bonfire, forest, profile of a girl with wavy hair. Horizontal Row 2: a Romani-like caravan in a field, a beast hiding between trees, a girl doing a tarot pull. Horizontal Row 3: a girl bowing in front of a bonfire, a coven of witches dancing around a fire, a girl using a mortar & pestle to grind herbs. The Witch of Gatlinburg by Demri Redmon
November 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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amberbairdpdx.bsky.social
TO THE BURRITO GODS: a horror story about working in food service.

⛪️ workplace cult
🌯 foodie satire
💋 sapphic w/ trans LI

Querying soon. #questpit #A #H #LF #WIP
First panel is a mood board in pink, gold, and blue. "To the Burrito Gods" printed in the middle. Images in the board: two hands clasping, a burrito, a rainbow, something on fire, someone praying, an eye up close, a smashed up car, a computer and sketchbook, a series of knives. On the right panel against a grungy green background, info: Desperate Amanda doesn't have a lot of options in rural Oregon, but she thinks her dreams have come true when she's hired at Burrito Gods, a hip fast-casual joint, making a thriving wage, only to find that to climb the ranks she'll have to lose her soul. Movie poster for Sorry to Bother You X book cover for Pizza Girl. TO THE BURRITO GODS is a horror story about working in food service featuring a late queer coming-of-age for fans of Rachel Harrison and Grady Hendrix.
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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karimecc.bsky.social
ide and seeker x Mayan myths

Ixtab, Mayan goddess of Death, haunts a little Mexican town, dragging people to Xibalbá, the land of the dead. She's got Gustavo, and his sister Alondra would do anything to save him... even descending to hell
#questpit #YA #H #OWN #POC #Querying
Woman dressed as lady death
November 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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adropofmagick.bsky.social
ONE DARK WINDOW X KATABASIS

Alyss attends Nocturne Collegiate for one reason—revenge. With the (reluctant) help of her ex, her ex bff, & a devious half-vampire, she'll use memory magic to uncover the truth behind the murder that destroyed her life.🌙🦇⚔️

#QuestPit #OS #AG #F #R
A MEMORY OF MOONKISSED MALICE Fantasy Dark Academia Feminine Rage Vampires Corrupted Moon Magic Villain Era Protag Queendoms Enemies to Lovers Found Family THE PITCH 18-year-old Alyss Veylas wishes to attend Nocturne Collegiate for one reason—revenge. Five long years after her sister was murdered by the school's guardian, she finally gets that chance. Armed with a Moon Fragment granting memory magic and the aid of her ex and his new girlfriend, Alyss must confront the woman who took away the person she loved most. CHAPTER ONE The rain made it easier to rob his grave. My shovel carved through the sodden earth, the water contorting into murky veins around its edge. Desperation drove each labored thrust, the burning ache in my muscles but an afterthought to the prize that lied in wait. Even the Valera Forest held its breath; the fog thick enough to smother the night's whispers. All was silent save for the spilling of soil under the deluge that drenched us. Us. As I lifted my gaze to the boy standing across from me, I found that word had lost all semblance of warmth. FOR FANS OF... The lush, gothic prose of... A fantasy academia setting similar to... A supernatural mystery like...
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
natalielouise83.bsky.social
Wow. Just wow. 🤩🤩🤩
sallybromley.bsky.social Sally Bromley @sallybromley.bsky.social · Nov 5
Presenting my #agentsguide for
'Beauty is a Brittle Glass'
BLUE SISTERS X THE PUSH X THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.
🪞 Adult 82k
🪞 Dual POV
🪞 Speculative Elements
🪞 Beauty & Fashion
🪞 LGBTQ
🪞 Friends to Lovers
🪞 Disability Rep
#questpit #A #Q
Green background. Images of a woman's face in a gold picture frame. Splashes of gold. A woman with long dark hair turning sideways, hair blowing in the wind, eyes closed. Splashes of gold paint. A gold handprint. Background is the close up of a woman's face, splashed with gold paint. Three bookcovers. Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors, a young woman's sad face, The Push by Ashley Audrain and The Picture of Dorian Gray and a young handsome man with a partially diseased face. Green background splashed with gold paint. Images of a model on a Catwalk, a woman having injections in her face, a group of spooky trees, a photographer and an evil hand reaching out for a pale woman's hand.
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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philipavdey.bsky.social
SIX OF CROWS x HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON

A drunk wizard, a shadowy assassin, a disgraced elf warrior, a scheming cowboy, and a hapless farm boy decide to steal and then sell the king's beloved pet dragon.

But how do you deal with the creature once you've stolen it?

#questpit #Q #SFF #F
Collage depicting gothic/medieval cities, Western environments, and dragons.
November 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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scarletvmitchell.bsky.social
The only place depressed goth-girl, Helena, feels at home on the cheery campus is the dark, haunted chapel. When the stones come alive to warn her of a demon invasion, she becomes entangled in a cosmic war.
And falls for a gargoyle.❤️

Don't Let the Forest In x City of Bones

#QuestPit
#Q #YA #F
Moodboard for Rooted in Stone, sapphic gargoyle urban fantasy. Tagline”Somewhere away from this world, indistinct, infinite, and unknowable… What was beyond that veil?” 10 very dark, moody, grayish images around the edge include the hazy spires of Notre Dame with birds lying across, the Milky Way, a crow coming in the land, a gargoyle peeking over a ledge, a shadow crouching in a corner with piercing eyes, a young woman with black hair over her eye, a crow in front of a grave, a graveyard statue of an angel, and the interior of a church with a stained glass window. In the center of all this, is a bright painting of a natual landscape done in vivid sunset colors.
November 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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arachnereid.bsky.social
Experience a vision of transformation through the ruins of the former US.

Using the power of meditation, archaic tech, and ancient survival skills, an empath-scholar's quest to save her people is a narrative guide on how to thrive in civilization’s aftermath. 🌱

#A #Q #S #SFF #questpit #clifi
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END x FREAKY FRIDAY x PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER

In a world in which young people uncontrollably and frequently swap bodies, Sam’s journey to find his missing boyfriend teaches him to accept himself, no matter what he looks like. #questpit #YA #S #LGBT #Q
November 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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charwritesstories.bsky.social
COMPOUND FRACTURE x TOGETHER WE ROT

A ghost determined to solve her own murder, allies with the vengeful spirit of a cult leader’s daughter to unearth the rotting secrets of their small Appalachian town.

🧠 AuDHD + queer rep
🥀 sapphic romance

Coming soon 👀 to inboxes

#questpit #ya #W #PR #H
Don’t rot darlin, a sapphic YA horrormance complete at 70,000 words Mood board featuring snakes, churches, sapphic romance, missing poster and ominous background Comp titles: Together we rot, compound fracture, they bloom at night, don’t let the forest in Opening lines
August 6, 2025 at 5:26 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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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
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soph-pl.bsky.social
✈️ Boarding now! Destination: Berlin

A housing mix-up... and the host she shouldn't fall for.

👨‍👦Single dad & forced proximity
🔥Friends-to-lovers slow burn
🌇 ‘90s Berlin as character
🌶️Sex-positive spice
💬 Warm & witty
🛑 Love, career & the cost of duty

#QuestPit #Q #A #R
Snippet: “Wait, are you telling me that in German, the word for f—ing is… what’s a literal translation… ‘birding’?” “I guess.” “Ugh, I'll never see the eagle on the German flag the same way again.” I choke on my beer, spraying the coffee table. As I cough and snort, she slyly pulls a tissue from her pocket and wipes the table. “The eagle’s on the coat of arms, not the flag,” I say weakly, “and we have another word for f—ing, but please don’t use it. It’s really vulgar.” Keywords: Heartfelt; Spicy; Retro; Destination; Romance Before Sunrise movie poster; Every Summer After (Carley Fortune) book cover; Heartless (Elsie Silver) book cover; Kilt Trip (Alexandra Kiley) book cover Background images: Brandenburg Gate (Photo by Florian Wehde on Unsplash); a couple kissing (Design by Freepik; freepik.com); Berlin TV tower (Photo by Hannu Hollström on Unsplash)
November 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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soraia-esteves.bsky.social
On the verge of leaving because of her forbidden power, Akaira’s plans are thwarted when ancient magic appears, and she becomes wrapped in solving the mystery of who is attempting to bring the Gods back before their overpowering magic destroys the entire world
#questpit #Q #F #A
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM