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✉️ rep: Elizabeth Pratt at Trellis Literary
🀄️ CONDUCT OF MAGES (adult fantasy)
🐦 wip: [PROJECT PIGEON] 12,467/100,000
💖 2025 Smoochpit Mentee
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trang ☆ writer @trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social · Dec 26
I’m thrilled to announce that I’m now represented by Elizabeth Pratt at Trellis Literary Management.

Elizabeth’s enthusiasm for CONDUCT OF MAGES & vision for my writing career is truly what dreams are made of and I’m so excited for what comes next!

#writingcommunity #writingupdate #writer #agented
red movie poster style image with a shot of an Asian woman in a black blazer and jeans in a metal chair, posed with crossed legs and looking off into the distance. large text reads AGENTED across the top and subtext says “represented by Elizabeth Pratt, Trellis Literary Management” and “follow along for updates”
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juliaemwrites.bsky.social
These best friends have a 60-year age difference 🤝

Nita fled from Florida to NYC in 1970, while Violet made the same journey over 50 years later. Both left conservative families to live freely as queer women.

Can Violet break the cycle and help find Nita's long-lost love?

#QuestPit #HR #U #WF #A
Photo of a weeping willow with a scrap of paper laid on top that says "Underneath the Willow Tree" in handwriting font and below in smaller serif font "An Upmarket Historical Sapphic Romance" A photo of a brownstone with a scrap of paper on top, framed by a gold locket. The text reads "The Pitch" at the top in handwriting font and in a serif font below says " When Violet meets her new landlord, Nita, she realizes their journeys are eerily similar, even if they were 60 years apart. Both women grew up in conservative families in rural Florida and left everything behind to find more freedom in their queer identities in NYC. As the two form an unlikely friendship, Nita’s life story comes spilling out, revealing how she heart-wrenchingly left her first love behind to move. But Nita’s story may still be unfinished, her lost love may yet be found, and she and Violet may be more connected than either of them anticipated." A photo of a weeping willow dripping water droplets with a gold frame laid on top. The text at the top says "Tropes & Themes" in a handwriting font. Below, in a serif font, the text reads: "🔒 Forbidden Romance ❤️‍🩹 Second Chance Love 🤝 Age Gap Friendships💡 Found Family 💔 Generational Trauma 🍃 Nature Symbolism" There is a black and white photo of a train that is motion-blurred with a scrap of paper on top. The paper says "Set in" in a handwriting font and "🕰️ 1950-1960s Rural Florida & 1970s NY📍Present Day Rural Florida & NYC" in a serif font. There is also a red flower wax stamp on the bottom right.
January 31, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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catierobinson.bsky.social
THE NUTCRACKER GAMBLE, an adult contemporary romcom with a sapphic romance

Meet Mina and Cam, the dancers working together to save Mariner Beach Ballet. Will a last-ditch performance at a casino raise the money they need, and bring them together along the way?

#questpit #R #A #W #LGBT
January 31, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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writtenbylizahanna.bsky.social
Two childhood friends embarking on a roadtrip through the Wild West while Scottie chases her dreams navigating guilt and grief and Finn figures out how to chase his and still get the girl.

Here’s my agent’s guide to SADDLE UP my cowgirl/cowboy romance 🤠

#questpit #W #A #R
January 31, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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lliuwrite.bsky.social
THE HUNGER GAMES x DAUGHTER OF THE MOON GODDESS where a fox demon bard seeking to become human joins the deadly race up a wish-granting mountain—but falling for a demon hunter may cost her everything.

🏳️‍🌈Asexual MC
🌦️Devious sunshine x softhearted grump

#questpit #A #F #OWN #Asian #LGBT
Book cover with title "The Heart Devourer's Song" over illustration of a smiling bard and stern hunter standing underneath pink blossoms.
January 31, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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katcrino.bsky.social
THE HOUSE OF HANDS, a YA fantasy

Meet Katerina and Azrin, the brutal assassin and the silver-tongued con-artist

☀️Sunshine/black cat
🔥Slow Burn
⚔️Reluctant Allies
🫣 He falls first

#QuestPit #Q #F #YA
January 31, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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hadiyahsama.bsky.social
TGUWG x Poppy War

In a kingdom where necromancy is illegal, budding necromancer Sera fights her way to the top of the kingdom court. Discovery means death, but Sera has always wanted to make an impact and she won't let something like morals get in her way.

#questpit #W #A #DF
January 31, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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sofiatrepp.bsky.social
💀What if personality tests were deadly?💀

To save her ruined reputation, Ró joins a heart-eating cult to play deadly games that’ll uncover the deepest parts of her personality. Win and prove her worth. Lose and sacrifice her soul to the seductive forest spirits.

#YA #F #DF #Q #QuestPit
Sample page for Feed Me Your Heart - a YA fantasy book with elements of horror and romance
January 31, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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catierobinson.bsky.social
HEATED RIVALRY- level yearning, in the dance studio

Here is my #agentsguide to THE NUTCRACKER GAMBLE, a sapphic contemporary romcom!

#questpit #R #A #LGBT
The Nutcracker Gamble, agents guide. A contemporary sapphic romcom. Two dancers in tutus sit on a stage, leaning towards each other The pitch, with a dancer from The Nutcracker’s snow scene in the background and a light purple text box Two dancers backstage with a purple text box A dancer laying on the stage doing snow angels, with comp titles in a purple text box
January 31, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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sofiatrepp.bsky.social
Ró always found eating hearts to be vile, even if it grants humans magical powers. But her town’s leader craves the heart of a seductive water spirit, and Ró yearns to impress.
Succeed and earn a much-needed favor from the town leader, fail, and it’ll be her heart on a plate🫀
#YA #F #DF #Q #QuestPit
January 31, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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sofiatrepp.bsky.social
Haunted by her ruined reputation, Ró joins a heart-eating cult to hunt down the one creature whose heart can buy her life back.

🫀 Cultish magic
💀 Deadly personality tests
🧌 Scandinavian folklore
🖤 Romance á la OUABH

WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL x YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES

#YA #F #DF #Q #QuestPit
Feed Me Your Heart - Intro Page Themes for Feed Me Your Heart Comps for Feed Me Your Heart Pitch for Feed Me Your Heart
January 31, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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katcrino.bsky.social
If the king of Adarlan had raised Aelin Galathynius

Katerina's shadow magic has thrust her into the heart of a war, where she must decide between absolute power at a nation's expense or destroying the king who made her.

#QuestPit #Q #F #YA
January 31, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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annahirsch.bsky.social
HAMNET x NOSFERATU

🖤 The black sheep of a powerful 14th-century Irish family falls in love with the banshee who’s haunted his household for generations—but as the bubonic plague closes in, he must choose between the living and the dead.

💌 SmoochPit 2025 Mentee

#QuestPit #Q #A #H #HFic
Gothic text treatment with a red skeletal graphic overlay with a spooky, dark forest photograph background. Text reads "An Agent's Guide to the Banshee of Clan Murtagh, a gothic love story, 82,000 words, adult horror, by Anna Hirsch." Tropes & comps: Irish folklore, she's the monster, generational trauma, only one grave. The yearning in the time of plague found in Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, Catholicism vs the Supernatural in The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas, the medieval horror of Between Two fires by Christopher Buehlman, the death-crossed lovers of Nosferatu directed by Robert Eggers. The 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. Yet, his family doesn’t believe his warnings, and why would they? The last time Ciarán heard the banshee, he didn’t tell a soul until after his younger cousin tragically died under his watch. He’s been the family pariah ever since. Desperate for redemption, 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, decades ago—a woman named Deirdre. In hopes of learning whose death she foretold, Ciarán tenuously agrees to help Deirdre remember who she was. They begin meeting by moonlight, and with every clandestine encounter, his macabre desire for Deirdre grows. 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. But fate demands more than death, and Deirdre is no longer the only ghost cursed to haunt Clan Murtagh forever. The first line: I was a boy of ten when I first saw death, but I'd heard her for years.
January 31, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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lindamaleh.bsky.social
LEGENDBORN x NINTH HOUSE

To save NYC’s witches from being hunted down and possessed by malicious spirits, 16-yr-old Haley Thorne must wield her death magic to travel to a monster-infested realm to stop the dead witch behind it all.

#QuestPit #Q #F #YA
In the Shadow of a Witch agents guide, cover page. YA fantasy. 83k words. In the Shadow of a Witch elevator pitch In the shadow of a witch comps In the shadow of a witch excerpts
January 31, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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lliuwrite.bsky.social
Selected for 2025 SmoochPit Mentorship

THE HUNGER GAMES meets DAUGHTER OF THE MOON GODDESS where a heart-devouring fox demon bard seeking to become human joins the deadly race up a wish-granting mountain—but falling for a demon hunter may cost her everything.

#questpit #A #F #Q #amquerying
An agent's guide to THE HEART DEVOURER'S SONG, an adult asian-inspired romantic fantasy. Selected for the 2025 SmoochPit mentorship program. Devious sunshine fox demon bard x Soft-hearted grump demon hunter. 🌈Asexual spec MC 🌦️reluctant alliance 🌱Found Family ❤️Slow burn romance 🪕Inspired by Chinese music and mythology 🌖Morally gray yet kind MC 🏔️Chinese demons, immortals, and magic Pitch: THE HUNGER GAMES meets DAUGHTER OF THE MOON GODDESS where a fox demon bard seeking to become human so she no longer has to devour hearts joins the deadly race up a wish-granting mountain but falls for a soft-hearted grump demon hunter—and with only one wish at the mountain’s peak, love is a weakness she can’t afford. COMPS: Immortal, The Scorpion and the Night Blossom, The Serpent and the Wings of Night
January 31, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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In honour of #QuestPit and the upcoming #SmoochPit showcase, here's an updated #agentsguide for THE BOG PRINCE, my upper #YA #RF about a necromancer who reanimates the bog body of her kingdom's long-lost prince. 💀👑

Maybe some secrets are better left buried... 🖤 #agentguide #Q
"An agent's guide to THE BOG PRINCE by Julianne M, a 99k word YA fantasy romance." The pitch... Eighteen-year-old Everin Lockett’s dreams of returning home from ruthless Wyverith College are shattered when she manifests a forbidden necromancy magic that reanimates the bog body of her kingdom’s lost prince. If the college discovers the truth about her abilities, she will be conscripted into their brutal army, doomed never to see her family again. Desperate to guard her secret, Everin strikes a deal with the long-lost Prince Byrnan: if he helps keep her power hidden, she will help him solve his centuries-old murder. But when Byrnan’s quest for justice could be the very thing that endangers her last hope of going home, Everin will need to confront the true cost of falling for a lost prince with nothing left to lose—and a kingdom to reclaim. Pictures of book and album covers in ornate antique frames. The text reads: For fans of... Yearning and bog bodies (Hozier's debut album) Dark academia and lyrical prose (A Study in Drowning and Curious Tides) Haunting gothic atmosphere (One Dark Window and Florence + the Machine's Lungs album) Slow-burn romance (Divine Rivals) Snippet... A fork of lightning split the rain-soaked sky in two, and the ground trembled with a deafening clap of thunder. But even after the rumbling faded, the bog still shuddered beneath me, swelling and quaking like a pair of lungs drawing their dying breath. I lurched away, my heart jolting against my throat as I scrambled back through the mud. Another crack of lightning. And in its wake, silhouetted against the flash of violet light— A single grasping hand, clawing its way out of the earth towards me.
January 31, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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jenniferluce.bsky.social
Hi #Questpit! Nearly done w/ SmoochPit revisions, here's GUMIHO, my Korean folklore-inspired adult fantasy blended w/ horror & romance!

✨️ Selected for the 2025 Smoochpit Mentorship Program
✨️ Big 5 Editor Interest
✨️ Won 3rd in the horror category of the 2025 PNWA Writing Contest

#A #F #H #R
An Agent Guide to GUMIHO 86,000 word adult folklore fantasy blended with horror and romance By Jennifer Luce The pitch: Cursed with a vengeful gumiho, Mina has spent centuries feeding it souls to become a god—and now she needs just one more, but when she falls for her final target, she must choose: face her demons and sever the curse before the gumiho consumes her from the inside out, or achieve godhood and lose herself to become something truly monstrous. For fans of... SUCH SHARP TEETH by Rachel Harrison - physical transformation & emotional vulnerability THE FOX WIFE by Yangsze Choo - East Asian Folklore MY DEMON - Redemption through connection THE GLORY - Morally gray anti-hero First Lines Bright droplets of red bloomed against the crisp, white snow. A trail, unbeknownst to my victim, that would lead to his demise.
January 31, 2026 at 5:08 AM
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questpit.bsky.social
‼️IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT‼️
In solidarity with the general strike happening this Friday, we’re postponing this week’s event by ONE day. The event will now take place January 31st on Saturday. This strike is important to the both of us and we would appreciate you joining us.
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January 28, 2026 at 11:53 AM
trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social
EDITING DIARIES 1.18.26 //

starting on draft 5 edits today, and here’s where I started vs. where I ended. I went from 31 edits (all outstanding) to 33 edits (8 completed, 25 outstanding).

#amwriting #amediting #writingcommunity #fantasyauthor #aspiringauthor
January 19, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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lindamaleh.bsky.social
LITTLE THIEVES x NINTH HOUSE

When a nefarious witch schemes to come back to life, 16-y/o Haley Thorne must use her death magic to travel to a realm of dead witches & monsters to stop her.

🎃Halloween deadline
🏙️NYC-setting
❤️‍🔥Slow-burn romance subplot
💀Spooky graveyards

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #YA #F #Q
January 14, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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lindamaleh.bsky.social
To save NYC’s witches from being hunted down and possessed by malicious spirits, 16-yr-old Haley Thorne must wield her death magic to travel to a monster-infested realm to stop the dead witch behind the nefarious plot.

LITTLE THIEVES x LEGENDBORN
#BluePit #BluePit📖 #YA #F #Q
In the Shadow of a Witch spooky vibes
January 14, 2026 at 1:16 AM
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lindamaleh.bsky.social
PERCY JACKSON x LEGENDBORN

16-y/o witch, Haley Thorne, must wield her death magic to travel to a monster-infested realm to stop a nefarious witch from resurrecting.

#BluePit📖 #BluePit #YA #F #Q
January 14, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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owe-writes.bsky.social
Due to a prenup that forbids songs about her cheating ex, a singer-songwriter plans to fake a romance and subsequent split with a washed-up actor as cover for her heartbreak songs—but falling for the man she must leave threatens both her carefully guarded heart and her solo debut.
#bluepit #A #R #W
January 13, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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carosas.bsky.social
A STUDY IN DROWNING meets ALL THAT CONSUMES US in a south-american inspired world:

"A grieving sister’s scavenger hunt through her dead sibling’s journals uncovers a secret society, a vanished prodigy, and ghosts that won’t let her graduate alive."

#BluePit 📖 #Q #YA #OV #LGBT #F #H
January 13, 2026 at 6:27 PM