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Nikki is 💫 querying ⚔️
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38. she/her. tea drinker. working on a YA paranormal series and a middle grade portal fantasy 🏳️‍🌈 D&D nerd/forever DM 🎲 #amquerying
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Nikki is 💫 querying ⚔️ @nikkipwrites.bsky.social · Nov 5
An #agentsguide to my Middle Grade Fantasy THE DARK CURSE
Featuring:
🛡️ epic adventure
🎮 virtual reality becomes his reality
🏳️‍🌈 bisexual awakening
💔 struggling with loss
⚔️ fantastical monsters

#questpit #MG #F #LGBT #Q
nikkipwrites.bsky.social
I just went to the bathroom to powder my nose, and I looked in the mirror and said, ‘Ethel, you’ve been here for nearly forty years and they couldn’t even get you vol-au-vents for your retirement party, why did you waste all of that time?’
I love this from my current WIP 😅
shadowsparkpub.bsky.social Shadow Spark Publishing @shadowsparkpub.bsky.social · 1d
It's Hump Day, folks, and our friend demands a sacrifice. Let's get a page from your wip. Maybe it's the middle for you? Give us a line from PAGE 51?

If you haven’t gotten to that page, how about a post from page 5 instead?

#writesky #booksky 📚 🪐 💙
Wednesday Hump Day Two humped camel judging you
January 22, 2026 at 1:23 AM
nikkipwrites.bsky.social
You know you’re an adult when your group chat consists of discussions about the wind and if you should take in your wheelybin in case the recycling blows down the street 😂🙈
January 21, 2026 at 11:12 AM
nikkipwrites.bsky.social
My #smallpitch pitches. Very colourful! Best of luck to everyone who pitches 😊
January 20, 2026 at 9:07 PM
nikkipwrites.bsky.social
Ooh #smallpitch is right! 400 characters or fewer? I can barely manage a tweet because it’s so few characters 😂
Still, one down and one to go!
Wishing everyone who is participating all the best 😊
January 20, 2026 at 8:31 PM
nikkipwrites.bsky.social
Writer friends - If an agent passes on your query, do you respond to them to say thanks for your consideration, or just a general reply because it’s polite? Or do you figure that they get enough emails so just don’t do anything with it? My politeness is at war with itself 😂
January 20, 2026 at 12:13 PM
nikkipwrites.bsky.social
Am I the only one guilty of not reading for days, then picking up a book one night and reading until stupid o clock in the morning?
Oh well, no regrets. 😁
January 15, 2026 at 1:57 AM
nikkipwrites.bsky.social
To everyone reading this: I hope that you manage to find a spark of joy this holiday season, and that you are able to forget the crazy of the world and enjoy your little pocket of it, if only for a day or two ❤️
December 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
nikkipwrites.bsky.social
Anyone else start of November Writing Month so well and then… life got in the way? I was at my 25k halfway through the month and thought I was doing really well, but now I’m not even at 35k 🙃
November 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
nikkipwrites.bsky.social
It’s 11/11. Im manifesting good things 🕯️
November 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
nikkipwrites.bsky.social
How long do you have to be using blue sky 🦋 before you stop singing “Mr Blue Sky” every time you get a notification or open the app? Asking for a friend… 🤣
November 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
nikkipwrites.bsky.social
I really enjoyed #questpit yesterday, the #WritingCommunity here is fantastic and I hope everyone gets lots of agent likes and full requests because I want to read all of the books that I read pitches for 😂
November 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
nikkipwrites.bsky.social
Me last night every time I heard some fireworks 😂
a red curtain is behind a row of silver tinsel decorations .
ALT: a red curtain is behind a row of silver tinsel decorations .
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November 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
nikkipwrites.bsky.social
SEEING RED

The last person that Maddie expected to be her prom date was the ghost of a 200 year old vengeful spirit. Now the spirit won’t let her go.

#questpit #YA #PN #Q
A collage: A glittering disco ball, which is red at the bottom. An old bookcase and couch. Three friends looking out at a red moon. An old diary, handwritten in illegible script. And most prominently, a mysterious red headed woman looking into a broken mirror.
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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jjphillipsyo.bsky.social
12yo Catch doesn’t know magic. The Acolytes hunting him for his meteorite wand don’t care. At Alpine—a spy school for wizards—he must master spell-hacked spycraft to stop them from enslaving Guardian Spirits & seizing the Minerals of Power.

NEVERMOOR X AMARI X ANDOR
#QuestPit #MG #F #AmQuerying
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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dhoedits.bsky.social
IF I HAVE TO BE HAUNTED X BELLADONNA

👻🔮 Reluctant Medium
❤️‍🔥🕰️ Slowburn Sweet Romance
🤝🏡 Found Family
💀💞 Ghost Boyfriend
🕯️✨ Séances

#QuestPit #YA #Q #PF #agentsguide
November 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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gracehertenstein.bsky.social
Almost Famous X Oliver Twist

Set against the gritty backdrop of late 70s Hollywood, Pip, a lonely teenager, finds himself submerged into the bowels of punk subculture. But he soon learns that being an undesirable might be unsustainable.

The Undesirables • #questpit #YA #NA #Q
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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earthkids.bsky.social
DANNY PHANTOM x WEDNESDAY

Well, Denny Dragan sure messed up this time. Rather than find his missing sister, he accidetnally released a serial killer ghost.

To make things messier, he needs help from Guitar, a medium who would rather practice his cello than save lives.

#QuestPit #Q #YA #H #MY
An Agent's Guide to Reach Out a 85,000 word YA Horror/Fantasy with mystery elements. It's a collage of tarot cards, a girl climbing into an empty pool and a cassette tape that says "In case I disappear" Lined paper that says The Pitch at the top circled in red and a polaroid of a mauseleum. Then the following words: THE UNDERWOOD TAPES x WEDNESDAY Denny Dragan sure messed up this time. While trying to find his missing sister, he accidentally released a serial killer ghost. Talk about a distraction! And to make things messier, he needs help from a medium who would rather let people die than help out strangers. lined paper that says to the left "Tropes/rep" that's circled in red then there is a paper taped to it with the following words: "Found Family Epistolary Interludes Rewind, Replay, Repeat Witchcraft Meddling Kids Missing Person Unsolved Mysteries & Urban Legends Ghostly Goals 90s Vibes" underneath is another paper taped with the following pride pins: Trans, Ace, Lesbian, progress pride" On the left it says "Comps" and is circled in red then has two film strips that go from top to bottom: Wednesday and her friend in a cemetery, the Mystery Gang in a small town, the Losers Club in a cemetery, the Dead Boy Detectives in a bunker then The Underwood Tapes by Amanda Dewitt with two people on the book cover with film around them; the Name of the STar by Maureen Johnson with the book cover featuring a faded park image; Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake with a book cover of a ghost girl walking through fog to a house; Dead Flip by Sara Fraizan with a book cover of an arcade and heads above it. Lined paper with an unspooled cassette tape at the top where it says "A snippet" circled in red and says the following: " Dear listener who is probably just Denny. I bet you’re chuckling now ‘cause I’m right, aren’t I? Anyway, this is my ‘in case I disappear’ tape but the rest is a real treat for you. It’s some impressive project I’ve been working on. Though if I am missing, tell mom it wasn’t the monsters, but I’m, like, studying archeology at some college where I’m on some research trip with the professor to find the amulet. Then really buckle down and be all like ‘You know, the amulet? How do you not know about the amulet? What kind of mom are you?’ until she cries or something then you can tell the truth. I want her to feel bad for always being ‘too busy.’"
November 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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meloniewithano.bsky.social
PJO XTrumanShow
Being the gods' pawn isn’t new to 15y/o Mia Miller, an anxious girl w/ music magic. But when a quest to Nashville is derailed by a book where she’s the MC, Mia & BFF must find the author & salvage her quest, before Olympus finds out.
#QuestPit #Q #YA #F
Moodboard with alternating images between black and white and vivid color. A greek statue, a raven, a girl crying, a girl with hand lifted, an oracle, a light magic, a face statue, Nashville neon lights at night. Text: Music will be the death of me.
November 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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wintersleep85.bsky.social
NAUSICAÄ X FF7

Nature is decaying, nobles are hoarding magic, and demons prey on everyone. A possible chosen one, a man who failed his destiny, and a woman rejected by fate must work together for one last chance to save the dying world.

#questpit #Q #F #A #agentguide
Dark forest. An agent's guide to The Blessing Returned. Adult fantasy. 98,000 words. Dark forest. Pitch. Idealistic Hana Hahl lives in a world that is slowly dying after a failed quest to bring back magic. The only ones left with power are self-serving royals and dark mages, while desperation has given rise to an anti-magic order. Caught up in a mystical event, Hana is blessed with an immense power that could restore nature to the world. As Hana struggles to control the overwhelming force, Lady Kalyn Nossi, the only known survivor of the disastrous quest, directs her to the one person who can help her. Matthias Azel, the failed chosen one, reluctantly agrees to teach Hana while concealing his past from her. Accompanied by Kalyn and a charismatic prince with a dangerous secret, they journey to seek answers about Hana’s destiny. They fend off demonic threats and the anti-magic forces as Hana struggles with magic that seems to resist her and a growing fear that the world isn’t meant to be saved. A dark forest. Comps. Nausicaä. One Dark Window. The Starless Crown. Godkiller. Final Fantasy VII Remake. Tropes. Chosen One (s)? Ecofantasy. Dieselpunk. Grumpy/Sunshine. LGBTQIA+. Multi POV. A dark forest. Snippet. She took a cautious step forward, unaware she was in a spectral form. Little drops of shimmering light followed her path, dissolving into the ground. “But this has to be a sign?” Grass grew where the light fell, delicate bits of nature that should be impossible. “Maybe it’s returning!” The young woman spoke with such bright reverence as if life was a fairy tale and magic was all they needed for a happy ending. It was as if she couldn’t see the shadows approaching her. The inevitable death. “Magic should never return.” After speaking those words, he sprang forward and shoved her away from the shadows. Pain rocked him as soon as he touched her. The scorching mystical agony tore a scream out of him, but it kept her away from the unearthly menace, and the shock did what he intended. Sent him back to his body.
November 5, 2025 at 6:48 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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johnwgant.bsky.social
Robin Hood robs the Prez in ‘25

#QuestPit 82K

He needs his dad, a retired thief w Alzheimer’s, for the score or his foster home will be foreclosed.

#Q #A #T satire/crime/upmarket

*How best to stand up to a bully than to mock them? Help me ridicule the orange menace. Support my manuscript.*
How I stole from the President while saving a foster home Agent’s Guide Themes/tropes for the agent’s guide Writing snip for the agent’s guide An image of a hand drawn map of mar-a-lago is shown The pitch For the agent’s guide 4 comps shown
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 AM
nikkipwrites.bsky.social
THE DARK CURSE
Middle Grade Fantasy 84k words

If you could wake up in your favourite video game, would you want to?

More to the point, would you ever want to leave?

#questpit #MG #F #LGBT #Q
A collage of pictures, with a young male hand reaching out to grab them: a sword and knights helmet, someone casting a fire spell, an inviting path into the woods, a knight holding a sword, a mountain behind an old-fashioned house, a cloaked magic user, a white horse galloping, and a mountain range.
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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gabriela-stluke.bsky.social
Dear Cera,

Pack your bags! You've been invited to appear on LAST CHANCE MATCH, a new dating show where LOVE ISLAND meets SQUID GAME and BLACK MIRROR. Should you find a soulmate, you won't be exterminated in 2 years.

Are you ready to find the one who's to die for?

#questpit #A #R #SF #H #S #Q
Tropical villa backyard with patio loungers and pool. Photo has bad reception television glitch. Words overtop: Welcome to the inaugural season of LAST CHANCE MATCH. 92,000 word dystopian horrormance
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 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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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