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Shida Ketzer (follows back all fiction writers)
@wisteraverse.bsky.social
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Author of #Wisteraverse High #Fantasy novels,
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Shida Ketzer (follows back all fiction writers) @wisteraverse.bsky.social · 10d
🗡️Murdered in cold blood & resurrected through forbidden powers, Quill becomes a formidable assassin. As her latest mission sparks a higher power’s wrath, Quill must avenge the death of her people and her own murder. Failure will cost more than just her life.🪶
#QuestPit #F #P
Killer Quill by Shida Ketzer This world, my dear, is the slaughterhouse of noble ideals. Back cover blurb: Murdered in cold blood and resurrected through forbidden powers, Quill becomes her world’s legendary assassin. She can never part with her eponymous quill. The mythical quill keeps her alive, heals her wounds, and enables her to transform colors into animate objects doing her bidding. In exchange, the quill feeds on her victims’ souls. When her latest mission sparks the higher power’s wrath, Quill must avenge the death of her people and her own murder. Failure will cost more than just her life. A Wisteraverse novella.
wisteraverse.bsky.social
You know what this means: Killer Quill is now out in the world! 🥳📚🎂
[Psst! The best birthday gift to me is buying my book!😉]
November 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
wisteraverse.bsky.social
Killer Quill will (finally!) be released tomorrow, November 15, which just so happens to be my birthday!
Here's the dedication page: For my literary idol, Ursula Vernon, @tkingfisher.com
I know I can never aspire to her level, but I'm still glad that I will see my book coming into this world.
For my literary idol, Ursula Vernon, Killer Quill by Shida Ketzer This world, my dear, is the slaughterhouse of noble ideals. Back cover blurb: Murdered in cold blood and resurrected through forbidden powers, Quill becomes her world’s legendary assassin. She can never part with her eponymous quill. The mythical quill keeps her alive, heals her wounds, and enables her to transform colors into animate objects doing her bidding. In exchange, the quill feeds on her victims’ souls. When her latest mission sparks the higher power’s wrath, Quill must avenge the death of her people and her own murder. Failure will cost more than just her life. A Wisteraverse novella.
November 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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annglimmer.bsky.social
TRUE HATE'S KISS
She must trick her enemy into kissing her to break a deadly curse on her family

🐉Viking Vibes & Scandinavian Folklore
⚔️Age-Old Clan Feud
❤️‍🔥Enemies-To-Forbidden-Lovers
🔥Delicious Banter & Yearning
🌶️Hot & Spicy

#Questpit #NA #Romantasy #Agented #Editorsguide
November 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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rebeccareyeswriting.com
Fans of science fiction fantasy and straight up sci-fi with twisted societies, reluctant alliances, and flawed characters, may I entice you with my weird writing?

rebeccareyeswriting.com

#SFF #Scifi #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Books #Booksky💙📚
All three of my published books: Sigils of Malice, Sigils of Blight, and The Sarcophagus of Lamia Sigils of Malice's book cover has a magical, horned blue beetle with red eyes sprinkling glittering dust on magical technology lit by a blue gem. Sigils of Blight's book cover is of a six-sided lantern lit with a ghostly flame, in the jungle, in front of burning ruins. The Saprophagous of Lamia's cover is of an ethereal blonde woman's resting face, laying back upon red velvet. She has a silver implant in her hair. In front of her is a round, gothic window with gold filigree. Leaves, faces and fish are in the filigree's design. The background image is a yellowed photo of a gothic church, courtesy of Aleslanger on Pixabay. Art by Elora Ladd Books by Rebecca E Reyes
November 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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keltondavis.bsky.social
SINNERS x THE DEVILS x CASTLEVANIA

There's three rules to surviving as a nightrunner: don't get comfortable, don't be a hero, and don't be unlucky.

Corado's about to break all three.

🤠 Vampire Cowboys
🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes
🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities

Querying soon!
#A #F #W #QuestPit
Image: A man in a black cloak and a wide brim western style black hat, holding a revolver; only his eyes as yellow pinpricks are visible. Text: A Novel By Kelton Davis Blood Red Sand 109000 Words Adult Gothic Western Fantasy Querying Soon Art: Apocalypse by Oliver Odmark Title: Comparable Titles Images of the covers of The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, and Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian. Text drawn with an arrow from each image: Found family (from the Devils) Reluctant parent figure (from Godkiller) Western-inspire Gothic setting (from Red Rabbit) Unlikely travel companions (from all). Background image: same as first slide. Title: Pitch Text: Corado is just trying to survive the night—every night. Being a nightrunner, one of the few brave or foolish enough to defy humanity's vampire masters to traffic himself and others across barony lines, doesn't make it any easier though. With vampire posses stalking the desert during the day and their ravenous Horde filling the sky each night, it's a miracle he's survived as long as he has. Some of it he chalks up to skill, some to instinct, but he knows that when the dawn comes, the main thing seeing him through the night is good old-fashioned luck. Nothing lasts forever though, and Corado's lucky streak soon comes to a quick and bloody end. After nighttime attack from the Horde leaves him stranded in the desert with a newly-orphaned boy named Hectar, he finds keeping the rest of the world at bay may not be as easy as he thought. Newfound companion in tow, he sets out to find what remains of the boy's family and finally put the whole thing behind him. But as he knows by now, no job is ever so simple. As he tries to escort Hectar to safety, whispers of rebellion start drifting on the wind. With a world free of the Horde beginning to look like a real possibility, Corado must face vampires, twisted monstrosities, and the darkness lurking in men's hearts before he decides whether the world he's cut himself out of is one worth fighting for after all. Background image: same as other slides
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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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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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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delandjessica.bsky.social
WAKE embodies "Free" from KPOP DEMON HUNTERS w/:

~A FMC tormented by her past that's ruining her mental health
~A LI working for the villain w/ his own troubled past
~a supportive slow burn romance built on understanding inner pain

Coming Spring 2027

#QuestPit #P #YA #F #MY #R
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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bvbodegom.bsky.social
CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END

When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign.

#QuestPit #A #H #M
The image, made with free non-AI stock pictures, shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color. The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects. At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title.
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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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
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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
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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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pinesforstories.bsky.social
Wayfarers x Farscape

Peace between alien races could shatter unless a neurodivergent, space-phobic marine biologist, the sexy, secretive ex she’s “over”, and their tween daughter can guide a pregnant space dragon to her nursery world before she loses her clutch.

#QuestPit #AG #SF
Phoebe and the Space Dragon, 92k Adult Sci-fi Pitch: In space, no one can hear you scream...at your ex. There's no room for argument when a pregnant, endangered creature demands you help her reach her nursery world---even if you're forced to fly with your ed. For anxious marine biologist Remy, the only thing scarier than space would be falling back in love with the man who shattered her heart. Tropes and comps: forced proximity, second chance love, co-parenting, middle-aged MC and LI, painful secrets. Looking down on Earth from space was allegedly a life changing event, but Remy was busy gripping her armrest and praying for delivery from a sudden, violent death. Why bother looking towards home? Any second now, she’d be plummeting back. Maybe orbiting trash would crash into them. Or the shuttle could lose power and drift into the void until they all died of hypoxia. All. That was the worst part: if she died, her only child died, too. Not that the daughter in question seemed to appreciate the gravity of the situation. Phoebe was all wide eyes and smiles as the budget shuttle rocketed them towards their almost certain demise. "Dad?" He glanced around at the silver-collared crew, all carefully not paying attention to the interaction, as usual—except for Solkar, who winked. "Captain Bellamy when we’re on the bridge, Phoebe,” he whispered. She scowled at him. "It's Navigator Walker, then." The corner of his mouth quirked like she’d said something funny instead of grown-up and serious. "You're right, we need to keep this as professional as possible, Navigator Walker." "Or we could act like we’re still a family," she muttered, half-hoping her voice didn’t carry across the Hasma’s pool. “At least one of us still wishes we were.” He looked a little hurt. It didn’t make her feel any better, but she didn’t apologize. If she was hurting, so could he. And it wasn’t like he ever apologized. "I am your family, Navigator Walker. A bit of time and distance doesn’t change that."
November 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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havetsavain.bsky.social
How often do we pardon the shadows from our vision?

A constant in our peripherals, never shying from view, but unintentionally ignored. So much is hidden, but what if they are the ones hiding something?

Plunge into Chasing Shadows, the second book of the Havetsavain series

#questpit #booksky #W
November 5, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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chantaldanieli.bsky.social
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA x THE VISCOUNT WHO LOVED ME

MY SWEET UNBECOMING, an upmarket gothic romance with:

🕯️Forbidden romance
🕯️High Society matchmaking
🕯️Black Swan-esque awakening
🕯️Obsessive yearning
🕯️European setting
🕯️Secret lake meetings

#W #A #R #questpit
November 5, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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carolinekwriting.bsky.social
Not querying yet (finishing final revisions) but testing out my agents guide!

SINNERS x IWAV

Angeline wakes up with a taste for blood and 200 years of missing memories. As visions reveal flashes of her past, she must uncover the truth before danger crosses her doorway.

#QuestPit #W #A #F
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
wisteraverse.bsky.social
🗡️Murdered in cold blood & resurrected through forbidden powers, Quill becomes a formidable assassin. As her latest mission sparks a higher power’s wrath, Quill must avenge the death of her people and her own murder. Failure will cost more than just her life.🪶
#QuestPit #F #P
Killer Quill by Shida Ketzer This world, my dear, is the slaughterhouse of noble ideals. Back cover blurb: Murdered in cold blood and resurrected through forbidden powers, Quill becomes her world’s legendary assassin. She can never part with her eponymous quill. The mythical quill keeps her alive, heals her wounds, and enables her to transform colors into animate objects doing her bidding. In exchange, the quill feeds on her victims’ souls. When her latest mission sparks the higher power’s wrath, Quill must avenge the death of her people and her own murder. Failure will cost more than just her life. A Wisteraverse novella.
November 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
wisteraverse.bsky.social
Due to unforeseen circumstances (meaning: I was extremely sick and bedridden for way too long 😭), I had to delay the release of my first book baby two more weeks. KDP made it clear it's the last time I can delay it. So come what may, Killer Quill will be out on my birthday, November 15, 2025.
My book baby is due on November 15, 2025! A (fake) sonogram showing the cover of my book, Killer Quill, (as the fetus!) & the following themes and tropes: Color Magic Epic Fight Scenes Touch her & you'll die! Guaranteed No romance! Fantasy Heist Feral Feminine Rage BIPOC & LGBTQIA+
October 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
wisteraverse.bsky.social
My first book baby seems to be taking its time like an elephant! But illness has thrown off my release schedule by much. & it's now (hopefully finally!) due on Halloween, as all bloody things!

#UnhingedPit #F #CS
September 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
wisteraverse.bsky.social
What shape is your preference?
September 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
wisteraverse.bsky.social
Such an honor to have my 500-words flash fiction featured in this amazing magazine 😊
tcwestminster.bsky.social Tori- 5 star Author and Editor of Bunker Squirrel Magazine @tcwestminster.bsky.social · Sep 7
@wisteraverse.bsky.social Shida Ketzer turns a tale on its head
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Need a comedy? Try Volume 4!
#Prompt: "Overheard at a Funeral"
hilarious situations in serious places
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September 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
wisteraverse.bsky.social
#PitchDis
I just submitted a short story that is Spec Fiction. That's the only finished work I've done that is set on Earth! I usually write High Fantasy. So, when I'm done with my current WIP. I'm going to turn that short story into a full Speculative Fiction novel! What do you think?
pitchdis.com #PitchDis @pitchdis.com · Sep 3
Day 16 of 21 Days of #PitchDis! Today’s prompt asks what genre do you plan to write next? Make sure to include the #PitchDis hashtag in your post and search the hashtag to find others.
Day 16. What genre do you plan to write next?
September 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
wisteraverse.bsky.social
#PitchDis
My FMC is called Sy.
About 3 years ago, I was exchanging with an amazing CP. Her character was called Em (short for Emilie?). I found it brilliant since most fantasy names are too long or unpronounceable! But I didn't want an Earth name. So I picked "Sy" since it sounds like "sigh"!
pitchdis.com #PitchDis @pitchdis.com · Sep 4
Day 17 of 21 Days of #PitchDis! Today’s prompt - how did you come up with your main character’s name? Make sure to include the #PitchDis hashtag in your post and search the hashtag to find others.
Day 17. How did you come up with your main character’s name?
September 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
wisteraverse.bsky.social
#booksky #writingcommunity #writing #writesky #BookSky #amquerying #amwriting
wisteraverse.bsky.social Shida Ketzer (follows back all fiction writers) @wisteraverse.bsky.social · Sep 3
Dear #writingcommunity,
What type of generic criticism (from reviews, beta-readers, agents, etc.) do you find most irritating or absurd?

[I shared a few examples in the thread below.]

#writersky 🦄 🌶️ 🌈 📚💙 🪐📚 ⏰📚
September 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
wisteraverse.bsky.social
Dear #writingcommunity,
What type of generic criticism (from reviews, beta-readers, agents, etc.) do you find most irritating or absurd?

[I shared a few examples in the thread below.]

#writersky 🦄 🌶️ 🌈 📚💙 🪐📚 ⏰📚
September 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM