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Azi is querying a toxic friendship YA Fantasy
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Azi is querying a toxic friendship YA Fantasy @smossman.bsky.social · 3h
An #agentsguide to STARSENT, my MISTBORN x HOUSE OF THE BEAST friends-to-enemies YA secondary world Fantasy, or “Friendtasy”, complete at 106k words, already with Big 5 Editor interest!

I’m now officially #amquerying so if you’d like to see this, lemme know! 💫
An agent's guide to STARSENT, by azi ossman
smossman.bsky.social
An #agentsguide to STARSENT, my MISTBORN x HOUSE OF THE BEAST friends-to-enemies YA secondary world Fantasy, or “Friendtasy”, complete at 106k words, already with Big 5 Editor interest!

I’m now officially #amquerying so if you’d like to see this, lemme know! 💫
An agent's guide to STARSENT, by azi ossman
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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jalwrites.bsky.social
Half the World Away is number 4 in in the Gay YA chart today!

Thank you anyone who has bought a copy, or shared one of my many posts about it!
A picture of the Amazon Best Sellers in Gay Fiction for Young Adults. #1 The Sun and the Stars by Rick Riordan #2 and #3 Heartstopper Volumes by Alice Oseman, and #4 Half the World Away by James A Lyons
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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jalwrites.bsky.social
Get your copy for as little as £3.99 at:

www.linktree.com/jamesalyons
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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jalwrites.bsky.social
Half the World Away is now yours.

HEARTSTOPPER meets BOY LIKE ME

Set in the midst of Section 28, the BBC launch an inter-school pen pal project. Theo writes. Alex replies. This is what happens next.

Thanks to those who have written such wonderful reviews.

I really hope you all love it ✉️🌎
The front cover of the book, with the characters of Alex and Theo nearby. The text reads: Available now. Half the World Away. When Theo joins Year 9 at his local state school, he reluctantly agrees to take part in a new national pen pal project. After losing hope of a reply, an unexpected letter arrives from Alex, a confident private school boarder, sparking a connection that could change everything. www.linktree.com/jamesalyons Reviews - “Would fully recommend. It was such an easy read, and I absolutely loved it. The flow of the writing between Alex's letters and Theo's day were really well done and made it seamless to the point that you knew exactly what was going on.” ~ ARC review “A gorgeous, heartwarming, fuzzy book. I adored this from start to finish. I would have loved to have read more books like this growing up - so much about this book was wholesome and at the same time thought provoking. I would highly recommend this book! Absolutely gorgeous” ~ ARC review “Half the World Away explores love, distance, and identity in such a heartfelt way that I found myself smiling one minute and tearing up the next. It was tender, funnny, and quietly powerful. The themes of belonging, queer identity, and self-discovery shine through with warmth and emotion.” ~ ARC review “Half the World Away is a gorgeous, heartwarming story and I know you’ll just FALL IN LOVE with it! If you liked Heartstopper, you’ll love this! Sweet, wholesome and everything you need in a book.” ~ ARC review SEPTEMBER 1995 According to Nan, I’m four times more likely to be eaten by a shark than I am to win the National Lottery. Well, the joke is on her. I have never paddled deeper than my shins in the sea, and in front of me sits a winning lottery ticket. It may only be three matching numbers and worth a tenner, but I will take any positivity I can get. Life has been one kickback after another recently. Ten pounds won’t change that, and I often wonder if I’ll ever get a real lucky day. Today is my second ever first day of school. With the way Mum has been making a fuss, I should have an adventurous excitement flowing through my veins with each ripple from my heartbeat. The truth is my stomach is knotted as I stare down at three soggy Weetabix. They swim around my bowl, turning to mush, whilst Take That remind me from the radio to never forget where I came here from. Heartstopper meets Boy Like Me. Theo has been home schooled for three years, but his mother’s terminal illness forces him into Year Nine at his local school. Struggling to adapt, he’s persuaded to join a national pen pal project. His letter lands on the desk of Alex—a confident, private school boarder, and aspiring county rower—everything Theo is not. Despite their differences, the two begin to secretly confide, sharing struggles with grief, loneliness, and the pressures of a society demanding conformity. As their correspondence intensifies, Theo realises he has fallen for the boy in the letters. Concerned the outside world remains unwelcoming, and with Alex set to move to France, Theo must express his true feelings before they miss their chance to meet.
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
smossman.bsky.social
A full request????

🧍‍♀️wait wait wait i was supposed to get another form R why is this in my inbox

I JUST STARTED QUERYING. I'M VERY SCARED
a man in a wheelchair is being helped by two men in blue jackets while waiting for a bungee jump .
ALT: a man in a wheelchair is being helped by two men in blue jackets while waiting for a bungee jump .
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November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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chezza.bsky.social
SONG OF THE SIX REALMS x YOU
A courtesan with no emotions ventures to an immortal’s palace to heal her broken soul—but the palace is hiding seven imprisoned women, and they all look exactly like her.

🔥Soul dualism
🔥Obsession/entitlement
🔥Self-destruction

#questpit #AG #F #W
Photo of a woman in red robes with her back to the camera. There are two copies of her. TO POSSESS THE FLAME. Quote: “A bee alone cannot produce honey,” she said, turning to catch his gaze. A breath of wind caught the soft scent of the tree’s blossoms. “And I am not willing to be your flower."
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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bymeganwitt.bsky.social
Leah’s class trip to London is all castles and stage kisses– till she’s deferred by her dream college again. Stuck between the boy she’s fake dating & a chance at the future she’s meticulously planned, she has to embrace her waitlist curse to break it.
#questpit #ya #r #q
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 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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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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cassjackson-22.bsky.social
MLFI
#QuestPit #YA #W #RF
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES x TURNING RED
What if a chance encounter led you to your soulmate, but you didn't click right away? Aimee and Hunter are going to find out in this dual POV romcom filled with tutoring, self discovery, and platonic soulmates.
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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annahirsch.bsky.social
#AgentsGuide to my upmarket #gothic #horror novel, THE BANSHEE OF CLAN MURTAGH 🖤

🇮🇪 Medieval Ireland
🥀 Doomed romance
☠️ The black plague
💌 2025 #SmoochPit Mentee

#questpit #W #A #H #HF
An agent’s guide to The Banshee of Clan Murtagh, 71,000 word gothic horror by Anna Hirsch Tropes: He’s human, she’s immortal • Only one grave • Byronic hero protagonist • Uncovering lost memories • Medieval Irish setting • Tragic ending Comps: The death-touched romance of Nosferatu, the Catholic guilt of The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas, the black plague of Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, the folkloric love story of Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid Pitch: 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. I was a boy of ten when I first saw death, but I’d heard her for years. It was an early summer’s day when we went to the lough. Niamh led us through the forest along the stream, babbling all the way with a lightness that opposed her urgent pace. “This could be our best chance to see the merrow! Auntie said the veil is thin. They’ll be near and then we can speak!” “She also said we shouldn’t go this far,” I begrudged her. Again about the merrow. She had been speaking of them for days, and insisted that Deaglán and I journey with her to the lough, where they lay beneath the surface. Finbar wasn’t supposed to come, but Aunt Eithne had made us watch him while she harvested yellow flowers on the hillside. He slowed us down, and Niamh’s frustration roiled off her like steam against the cool breeze. Though the land was ripe with life, winter still dragged a claw through the air. As we ventured deeper into the forest, a feeling of unease grew within me. A sound rang in my ears, so faint I could not tell if it was imagined or real. Because for weeks, it had haunted my dreams.  
November 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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lilywzy.bsky.social
The Promised Neverland x An Academy for Liars x Pls Take Care of Me in This Life As Well

Meeting across three lives, Ravina and Ves become something like soulmates…if soulmate means being murdered together in every life until they break the curse, or time itself runs dry.

#QuestPit #A #F #H #W
nine images of girls walking through dark stairways or boardwalks, and art by kelogsloops.
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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theaquinnwrites.bsky.social
SHARA WHEELER x SHE GETS THE GIRL

In college, Talia wants to catch up on the ‘teenage experience’. But when she falls for a cool genderqueer lesbian, she has to figure out what that means for who she is. Even if it might destroy the relationship with her mother.

#QuestPit #YA #NA #C #R #Q
3x3 moodboard Top left - picture of Sydney Sweeney smiling Top Middle - neon sign that says Girls Girls Girls in the lesbian colors Top Right - pink studying supplies Middle left - a group of friends celebrating on a terrace Middle - Collage of NYU Middle right - silhouettes of two girls kissing Bottom left - a feminine person wearing a black t-shirt with the lgbt flag that says "kiss whoever the fuck you want" Bottom middle - feminine hands covered in ring and holding a cigarette Bottom right - model Erika Linder wearing a leather jacket
November 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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authorrjwebb.bsky.social
When a benevolent vampire vows to end the cruel reign of a monstrous council, he must battle the past and present to stop the curse they have unleashed—and to have the second chance with the only soul he’s loved.
#questpit #Q #A #F #PR #LGBT
November 5, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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arachnereid.bsky.social
🍏 Those who do not share their vision covet the fruits of their labor.

🔥 Long after Collapse, an empath's quest to save her people offers humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change.

🌲wilderness skills
🌪️ #CliFi
🕉️ #mindfulness
✨earth magic
🔮psychic powers
#A #Q #S #SFF #questpit
Long after the dust settles, what will grow from the rubble? Seven generations after collapse, oceans have reclaimed coasts and civilization’s remains are rotting back to the earth. Extreme climate and violent humans threaten a peaceful community hidden in the Green Mountains. Niwa, a gifted yet timid young empath-scholar, is prompted by group vision to lead a perilous and mystical quest to retrieve a rumored key to peace. Using unique psychic gifts, archaic technology, and nature-based survival skills, Niwaju’s group traverses a depopulated but healing landscape to save their people from impending doom. The travelers draw upon their survival skills, varying levels of control over their own unique psychic gifts, and residual tech artifacts, encountering diverse, unique characters on crumbling highways and swollen rivers through the mountains of Appalachia, moody swamplands of “New New Orleans”, and the Rocky Mountains. As she finds her inner resilience, Niwa’s mission becomes about more than saving her People from destruction; it offers humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change. Incorporating mindfulness, sustainability, earth based magic, and wilderness skills, this tarot-themed journey offers a vision of hope, transformation, and growth in a narrative adventure guide to thriving civilization’s aftermath, with surprising twists. a hand drawn map of a route across a sea-risen US, superimposed over a background of hopeful leaves sprouting from trees in an sunset sky over the Earth 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 2:51 PM
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hadiyahsama.bsky.social
COBAB x Animorphs

After a desperate outcast pretends to be the Chosen One, the REAL Chosen One is kidnapped. To save him, she must cross the world, pursued in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an Empire obsessed with the arcane abilities of her friends.

#questpit #Q #YA #F
YA FANTASY 76k Art by pideydraws tumblr Pitch: Zyra lies, her village burns, & her best friend and village chosen one is ripped away. To get him back, she must cross a world that calls her enemy, pursued in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an Empire obsessed with the arcane abilities of her friends. spears in the dark is a multi-pov novel which is the first in a duology. Spears was long-listed in the Times/Chicken House Children’s Novel Competition 2023! Spears in the Dark by Hadiyah Sama Excerpt: ...The clouds broke as she ran from cover, and she saw something she’d never seen before in the sky. A grey boat of some kind, but it was hovering like a bird, held aloft like it was pinned there by a spear. It was higher than even the mountains, and Zyra gaped. How were they supposed to stop that thing? The ship hovered over the bazaar. Beneath it, people swarmed like ants... Comps – Animorphs – teens making terrible choices, children of blood and bone – multi POV, BIPOC leads, Blood Scion – anticolonialism narratives, ATLA – found family, women’s wrongs, FFVII – disability rep and ecofantasy
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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emmacarelli.bsky.social
When exorcising ghosts, it helps to have a medium with a cool head and sympathetic heart.

Constance is a medium with none of those.

In a blend of horror/comedy that gets darker as it goes, traveling ghost hunters get in too deep when the dead won’t RIP
#questpit #a #q #uf #spec #h
Digital screen saying, "Constance is a reluctant medium with a death fresh on her conscience. She'd much rather keep her abilities a secret and turn her back on spirits, but when her only friend starts a freelance ghost hunting team, she tags along. Someone has to keep them out of trouble, right? If only things were that easy. But people go missing, spirits become restless, and as a building threat is determined to break the barrier between life and death, she'll discover that neither the past nor the paranormal are content to remain hidden. Great for adult fans of Ghostbusters, Scooby-Doo, psych-esque banter includes: unlikable heroine, found family maps, urban legends, fast- paced banter, mysterious organizations, human experiments, horror without gore, adult horror-comedy/ spec 97,000 words" Blonde woman stands in front of a brick wall, stretching, ready to fight.
November 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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victoriajayneoh.bsky.social
#questpit pitches below ⬇️
victoriajayneoh.bsky.social Victoria Jayne (they/them) is querying ya fantasy @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 7d
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 11:30 AM
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melanielocke.bsky.social
A dying mage and his lover research a way to wield magic without killing mages, but tragedy leaves them separated, soulless and immortal. Centuries later, two magic scientists must retrace their mistakes and help them die before their pain consumes the world.

#Questpit #A #F #LGBT #ND #W
Moodboard. Top left: wooden staff standing against pillar. Top right: misty greenhouse. Middle: crystal in a hand. Middle right: tropical plants. Bottom left: spiral staircase in library. Bottom middle: open book. Bottom right: typewriter on desk.
November 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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rydeen1997.bsky.social
OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA x MARTYR!

Want to draw your mother? Get her out the pond first. Keep her in the pond. Make use of your superpowers. Figure out your artistry - all of this in more or less this order, and before the crazy town you live in can harm her.

#questpit #W #A #F #S
Nymph‘s Pond, an upmarket fantasy at 80k The pitch Damla needs a personal element for her art project. Her lifeline is her mother who not only refuses, but disappears to a local pond. It turns out she‘s a nymph and claims that pond is hers. The pond owner disagrees with her. The town disagrees with her general existence. Caught between her mother’s mercurial moods, townspeople that egg her house, and the desire to figure out her own burgeoning sexuality and artistry, Damla’s own powers become and more unpredictable, threatening to erase her identity altogether... Vibes and comps: 🧜 an artist's coming of age 🧜 complex mother-daughter r/s 🧜 a hostile small town 🧜 a queer & female cast 🧜 battles w/ self-esteem 🧜 water powers reflecting emotions & past trauma Snippet: There she was. Out of the surface of the water her mother rose. A totally naked, stick-thin Derya Degirmenci stood in front of them all. Her skin looked as if she was made of algae and moving bruises, her hair was an ochre color, her green eyes darker than Damla had ever seen it, round and big to boot. She had no nose, and her skin shimmered in a way that it would on a fish’s scale. She did not at all look like the nymph paintings by John William Waterhouse. Her mother didn’t look like a human at all. She looked, instead, like she belonged to the sea, was a deep-sea creature best left untouched that had now been brought back on land to everybody’s chagrin. Here on land to haunt everybody it came across. But that was Hollywood, and this was real, and she was pissing Damla off.
November 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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natalielouise83.bsky.social
When a freak storm wrecks his island’s passenger steamer, sparing only a strange girl believed to be one of the monstrous Finfolk, a grieving musician must uncover who she really is before more of his people die.

#questpit #A #His #M #H #Q
Image of a girl floating beneath the ocean, blowing bubbles towards the surface. A seaweed motif sits behind bright green text that reads, ‘The Ballad of Agnes Day’.
November 5, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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soph-pl.bsky.social
A disciplined French student falls for leafy, laid-back post-Cold War Berlin—and for her reluctant host, an ex-athlete reeling from a wrecked career and a failed marriage.
The devastating catch? She can’t stay.

#QuestPit #Q #A #R
One summer to learn German To fall for Berlin To fall in love Only One Summer in Berlin Heartfelt & High Heat | ‘90s retro | Destination romance Background image: A couple embracing (Design by Freepik, freepik.com) overlaid with a picture of the Berlin TV tower (Photo by Robert | Visual Diary | Berlin on Unsplash) Snippet: I think that’s when the thaw begins. Not when he pulls me aside and tilts his head down. I briefly think we’ve never kissed in public. And not when he gently presses his lips to mine, giving me the choice to leave it at that. Because in that moment, I burst into flames. It all comes rushing back, like a punch to the heart that leaves me breathless. All the love and longing I feel for this man. Background image: Berlin Victory Column (photo by Robert | Visual Diary | Berlin on Unsplash) Before Sunrise movie poster; Every Summer After (Carley Fortune) book cover; Heartless (Elsie Silver) book cover; Kilt Trip (Alexandra Kiley) book cover. Keywords: slow burn; friends to lovers; heartfelt; multicultural; '90s retro; spicy chemistry; single dad; banter; forced proximity; destination romance Background image: A couple embracing (Design by Freepik, freepik.com) overlaid with a picture of the Berlin TV tower (Photo by Robert | Visual Diary | Berlin on Unsplash) Reader quotes: “Great story with a beautifully crafted relationship” “I found myself rooting for them from the beginning” “Perfect blend of emotional and sexy” “Lots of humor” “The reveal was great” “Felt like I was there” “I liked how the history was interwoven” "A wonderful job of creating ... characters that I care very much about and am sure other readers will, too! ... Can’t wait to see this published …" Background image: Berlin Victory Column (photo by Robert | Visual Diary | Berlin on Unsplash)
November 5, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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hadiyahsama.bsky.social
Kindred x Life on Mars
A Muslim young man must grapple with generational trauma and the very real danger of racism and discrimination when he is thrown back in time to 1970s Britain from 2024.

🌙muslim mcs
🗡️murder mystery
🗣️1970s british racism deepdive

#questpit #Q #YA #S #HF
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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hadiyahsama.bsky.social
COBAB x Animorphs

After a desperate outcast pretends to be the Chosen One, the REAL Chosen One is kidnapped. To save him, she must cross the world, pursued in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an Empire obsessed with the arcane abilities of her friends.

#questpit #Q #YA #F
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 AM
smossman.bsky.social
HOUSE OF THE BEAST x WILL OF THE MANY
Big 5 editor interest 👀
A star in human skin is willing to destroy her body to find her lost friend.
Except her friend wants her in cinders.

💥Friends➡️Enemies
💫Gold Age Islamic Astronomy setting
🌊Elemental high-consequence hard magic
#Questpit #Q #YA #F #ND #POC
a #questpit moodboard featuring a bracelet, a statue, fingers with gold rings, two people hugging, a streaking comet, and korra lifting a boulder.
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 AM