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Writing a gothic horrormantasy with paranormal mystery 🐦‍⬛🖤🕷️🪦
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EMILY WILDE'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FAERIES X DIVINE RIVALS

📖 Cozy, light academia
🌿 Soft FMC studying nature-based magic
🌸 Hidden garden steeped in secrets
🏛️ Academic rivals-to-lovers
💌 Slow-burn romance
🍃 Legacy, ambition, and belonging

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F #RF
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Serpent & Dove X In the veins of the drowning 🐍 🌊

🌶️ Bloodbound to a ruthless hunter, surviving each other might be hardest task 🩸

🌴 Dark Caribbean Folklore - T&T 🇹🇹
😏 Forced Proximity
🔪 Enemies x Lovers
🌔 Ancient Monsters & Spirits

#questpit #W #A #F #RF #H
November 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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EMILY WILDE'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FAERIES X DIVINE RIVALS X THE SECRET GARDEN

📖 Cozy, light academia
🌿 Soft FMC studying nature-based magic
🌸 Hidden garden steeped in secrets
🏛️ Academic rivals-to-lovers
💌 Slow-burn romance
🍃 Legacy, ambition, and belonging

#QuestPit #YA #FantasyRomance
November 5, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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/𝙷𝚄𝙼𝙰𝙽𝙾𝙸𝙳_𝙽𝙰𝙼𝙴 =

𝚇𝚎𝚗𝚗𝚊

/𝙷𝚄𝙼𝙰𝙽𝙾𝙸𝙳_𝙾𝙱𝙹𝙴𝙲𝚃𝙸𝚅𝙴 =

𝙰𝚌𝚝 𝚊𝚜 𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚘𝚗 𝙻𝙰𝚂𝚃 𝙲𝙷𝙰𝙽𝙲𝙴 𝙼𝙰𝚃𝙲𝙷, 𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚍𝚘𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚍 𝚜𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎

/𝙷𝚄𝙼𝙰𝙽𝙾𝙸𝙳_𝚃𝙰𝚁𝙶𝙴𝚃𝚂 =

𝙲𝚎𝚛𝚊 𝙷𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚡 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝚁𝚢𝚍𝚎 𝙲𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚢

/𝚃𝙰𝚁𝙶𝙴𝚃_𝙾𝙱𝙹𝙴𝙲𝚃𝙸𝚅𝙴 =

𝙴𝚕𝚒𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚎. 𝙴𝚕𝚒𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚎. 𝙴𝚕𝚒𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚎.

#DVPit #R #Dys #SF #A #NA #MH #amquerying #Q
October 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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🐍 SERPENT & DOVExCARIBBEAN FOLKLORE 🌴 🇹🇹

A desperate bargain forged with vengeful spirits, bound in blood to a hunter sworn to kill her kind — surviving each other might just be the hardest task.

❤️ Dark NA Romantasy
😈 Ancient Creatures
⚔️ Enemies to Lovers
🩸 Blood Bond
#DVPIT #A #NA #R #F #DF #POC
October 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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What can you expect this season of LAST CHANCE MATCH?

🩸 gut wrenching plot twists
🩸 cute robots that help style hair, makeup and clothes
🩸 she hates him, he loves her and there’s only one bed
🩸 man creates bot, bot kills man, bot inherits the earth

#writingcommunity #agentsguide
Dark ferns background An Agent's Guide To: LAST CHANCE MATCH 91,000 word Adult crossover dystomance "Find the one who's to die for." The Pitch: Calasca’s government uses science to appoint soulmates, but the 0.6% of the population who don’t receive a match face extermination at thirty. A new reality show, Last Chance Match, sets out to change that and gives the matchless another shot at life. Bitter waitress, Cera accepts the invitation, but is quickly deflated when she’s paired with the cocky and entitled Ryde. The show takes a dark turn when a fellow contestant is killed after being eliminated, forcing Cera and Ryde to fight for their happily ever after—and to make it out alive. The comps: THE KILL FACTOR by Ben Oliver Both with a killer reality show setting to win freedom SILVER ELITE by Dani Francis Both with opposing factions and biased government HEART OF THE SUN Both with second chances and dislike to lovers arc LOVE ISLAND Love Island inspired setting SQUID GAME Games created for a killer time BLACK MIRROR Dystopian setting with robot twists The Tropes: Arrows pointing from a mock cover of LAST CHANCE MATCH book with ferns with the following tropes: Dystomance He falls first Soulhates to Soulmates Forced proximity Second chances Only one bed
September 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Hop in loser, we’re going to South Africa

An agent’s guide to WILD HEARTS

🐆 lots of wildlife
🐆 set at a wildlife conservation in South Africa
🐆 influencer x grumpy worker
🐆 two cheeky meerkats
🐆 rewilding and releasing of cheetahs

#BluePit #q #A #R #amquerying
July 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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GODKILLER X BONE SHARD DAUGHTER

A desperate heir. A disgraced warrior. A deadly assassin.

🏹 Strong FMC
🏹 Rich Worldbuilding
🏹 Hunt for Redemption
🏹 Cyclical Trauma
🏹 Found Family

#BluePit 📖 #A #Q #AmQuerying
Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees Title Card Text: An Agent's Guide To: The Daughter and the Nameless Son by Kelton Davis | Adult Fantasy | 100k Words | Querying Now! Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees | Six images surrounding a quote (from clockwise): A sunset, a hammer striking hot metal, a red-haired archer, a grizzled old man, red arrow fletching, a red forest. Text: "You might be too broken to help me yourself," she said, all pretense of courtesy gone, "but if you're a shadow of the man he said you were, you ought to still know something at least. "Have you ever heard of an assassin who could change their shape?" Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees Title: Comps Images: Covers of GODKILLER by Hannah Kaner, THE JUSTICE OF KINGS by Richard Swan, and THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER by Andrew Stewart. Arrows connect similarities between comps. Text: From GODKILLER: Cross-Country Quest to Forbidden Land, Surrogate Parenthood (shared with THE JUSTICE OF KINGS) From BONE SHARD DAUGHTER: Disgraced Heir, Strong FMC (shared with both others) Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees Title: Pitch Text: Niozene has never been good enough. As daughter and crown heir to the Mother, a living goddess and ruler of her country, perfection is the only standard she’s ever known. Yet, despite her flawless scholar’s education and a polished career as a ranger, Niozene has failed to convince the Mother to look past her greatest flaw—she lacks the holy power to control the minds of others that ordains her family as living gods with divine right to rule. When a shape-changing assassin nearly kills the Mother on Niozene’s watch, she is stripped of her titles and given an ultimatum: return with the assassin’s head, or face excommunication from both her homeland and the afterlife. Desperate, she accepts the task as a final chance to prove herself and show the Mother she deserves a place as her daughter. Allowed only the help of Sonsan, a surly tracker and criminal also facing excommunication, Niozene dreads that she may have lost her chance at redemption before she has even left home. But when Sonsan reveals that he shares the same strange shape-changing power as the assassin, Niozene realizes his assignment to accompany her is more than coincidence. As they track the assassin deep into a forbidden land, confronting demons, ancient magic, and the ghosts that haunt their dreams and blood, they must uncover the truth behind their quest—and the buried history neither knew they shared—if they wish to live to see their promised redemption.
July 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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gabriela-stluke.bsky.social
Dear Citizen of Calasca,
Pack your bags! I am happy to extend an invitation for you to join us on LAST CHANCE MATCH, a new reality holovision program where LOVE ISLAND meets SQUID GAME and BLACK MIRROR. We can promise you’ll find the one who’s to die for.

#bluepit📖 #bluepit #NA #R #H #SF #SP #W
Above view of paradise dock on a beach with words overtop. Find the one who's to die for An agent's guide to LAST CHANCE MATCH New adult dystopian romance thriller with horror elements Above view of paradise dock on a beach, blurred, with words overtop. Pitch: Calasca’s government uses science to appoint soulmates, but the 0.6% of the population who don’t receive a match face extermination at thirty. A new reality show, Last Chance Match, sets out to change that and gives the matchless another shot at life. Down-trotted waitress, Cera accepts the invitation, but is quickly deflated when she’s paired with the cocky and entitled Ryde. The show takes a dark turn when a fellow contestant is killed after being eliminated, forcing Cera and Ryde to fight for their happily ever after—and to make it out alive. Above view of paradise dock on a beach, blurred, with words overtop. Comps: THE VILLA by Ruth Kelly - dating show setting, twisted games, desperation to win HEART OF THE SUN by Mia Sheridan - 'enemies' to lovers, second chances, dystopian love story THE KILL FACTOR by Ben Oliver - winning = freedom, life or death consequences, strong female protagonist LOVE ISLAND - Love Island-inspired dating show SQUID GAME - games created for a killer time BLACK MIRROR - dystopian future with sci-fi twists Above view of paradise dock on a beach, blurred, with words overtop. Snippet: The silhouette of a woman approaches us, but her flawless skin is a dead giveaway that it’s a humanoid. The older you get, the easier it is to spot them; their skin is free of blemish, not even a tiny scar indented into their bodies. Their eyes are shiny—too shiny—and their smiles lack depth, character, and warmth. Though the government will never admit it, they’ve started to release more and more of these bots into Calasca to act as companions for the matchless. They’re chameleons, taking on whatever persona they need to hook into you. The most unsettling part about them is how predatory they can be, entering the neighborhoods of the low-end and matchless. They even have a slot on their abdomens for payment. I shiver when the humanoid’s too-perfect eyes land on me, its bone-chilling grin never faltering. “Contestants,” it says so matter-of-fact, yet there’s a sweetness to it. An eerie kindness I can’t ignore. God, I hate humanoids.
July 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Kira and Xavier have two things in common: neither is in a place to start a relationship and they're extremely attracted to each other.

It's only natural that they become friends with benefits.

But all too soon, they're torn between following their hearts, or risking everything.

#BluePit #R #W #A
July 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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When provided with the opportunity to steal a necklace containing immeasurable magic, hedge witch Blake Delacroix must decide whether to accept the life society has laid out for her or steal the power she has always been denied.

#bluepit #Q #YA #LGBT #F
An image of a castle surrounded by forest. VEILED ENCHANTMENTS. YA FANTASY WITH DARK ACADEMIA AND SAPPHIC RIVALS TO LOVERS. COMLPETE AT 80,000 WORDS. The blurb: Seventeen-year-old Blake has spent her life studying magic at Holtsworth Academy with the hope of joining the ranks of the Royal Corps, an elite infantry comprised of divine witches descended from the gods. There’s only one problem: Blake isn’t a divine witch at all. As niece of the headmistress, she is confined to the role of assistant and silent observer of the extraordinary lessons unfolding around her, her own negligible powers denying her full participation. A spark of hope arrives when Blake learns that the Grandwitch has brought a secret necklace containing a volatile and immeasurable magic to the academy. Just as she finds a way to obtain it for herself, the necklace disappears and Blake believes she knows exactly who to blame: Maeve Moram, a powerful student who has always had it in for her. What begins as a quest to recover the necklace results in Blake unearthing not only the hidden truth of her fellow hedge witches but also a deeper and darker power that she can’t begin to comprehend. Comp Titles: Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Steven (sapphic romance, rivals to lovers, generational trauma) Wisteria by Adalyn Grace (familial relationships, lost deities, gothic-lite) Snippet: “It all comes so easy to you, and you don’t even deserve it.” I scoff. “Do you think the Corps would have selected you if your mother wasn’t Lady Death? I bet Adrien only sticks around to take the attention away from him being one of the Dregs.” It can be hard to remember just how far down the gods’ bloodline he is when he’s lording it over me. But there is no forgetting just how close Maeve is to the power of Death herself. “Where I get my magic from doesn’t matter.” She steps so close that I can feel her breath on my skin. Her eyes are slits, her teeth bared. “All that matters is that I have it – and if people want to make use of it, who are you to say otherwise? Just because you hate how small you are. How weak. You must drown in it.”
July 13, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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MEXICAN GOTHIC X HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

The letter from Malacca arrived on a Sunday, exactly four days after Gracie Chen first dreamt of the woman in red....

#1stLinePit #WIP #A #HF #H #M #P
April 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS X WHEN THE MOON HATCHED

There are three rules for provoking a Galah: never look into its hollow eyes, never speak your true name, and never, under any circumstances, let go.

Fantasy retelling of SEA folklore
⚔️ So. Much. Yearning
⚔️Forbidden Love
#Q #NA #YA #F #RF #1stLinePit
April 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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"Heat beats me down to a sweaty pulp, the sun ablaze and unforgiving like it’s trying to set the world on fire."

- To Ruin the Sky ⚡️

#1stLinePit #q #RF #NA #UF #OwnVoices
April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Updated #editors guide to A DEATH WITHOUT YOU

LAKESEDGE X HILL HOUSE
Chloe is trapped in a haunted mansion, bound to marry the ruthless prince of the underworld. She has three weeks to escape or be his forever. Fate and the love of a ghost battle as secrets claw to the surface.
#romantasy #gothic
a dark background with scrolling wrought iron inlay and white text that reads: A GUIDE TO A DEATH WITHOUT YOU, BY HEATHER CARTER, ON SUBMISSION NOW, AGENT: RAMONA PINA (BOOKENDS LIT) a dark background with scrolling wrought iron inlay and white text that reads: THE PITCH, CAN TRUE LOVE TRANSCEND THE CHASM BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH?, Chloe takes refuge in a haunted house, only to be trapped there, marked as the future bride of the underworld prince. She has three weeks to break the bond, or be his forever. But destiny has other plans in this ghost story. THREE IMAGES: THE BOOK COVER OF LAKESEDGE BY LYNDALL CLIPSTONE, THE MOVIE COVER FOR THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (2004), AND A MOVIE COVER FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES, THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE A DARK BACKGROUND WITH SCROLLING WROUGHT IRON INLAY. WHITE TEXT THAT READS: THE TROPES & REP: ADULT GOTHIC ROMANTASY, SOULMATES, FOUND FAMILY, MORALLY GRAY VILLAIN, TOUCH HER AND DIE, LOVE STRONGER THAN DEATH, SPICE, REP: ASD, MENTAL HEATHER, PLUS SIZE, PCOS A DARK BACKGROUND WITH SCROLLING WROUGHT IRON INLAY. WHITE TEXT THAT READS, SNIPPET: My heart thumped under his palm. I ceased to breathe as I realized what he meant. There, encased in the arms of a villain, I struggled to contain the unwanted urges that clawed their way toward the surface. It was absurd. Mad. There was no way in heaven or hell I could ever love someone so wicked.
March 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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"They say being offered to the Gods was the highest honour. However, if the whispers from the scribes were true, no mortal that crossed over to the immortal realm survived." #1stLinePit #NA #RF #C
April 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS X WHEN THE MOON HATCHED

"Tell me, child, what do you know of the gods?"

NA Fantasy retelling of SEA folklore
⚔️ Badass FMC
⚔️ Rich World Building
⚔️ Found Family
⚔️ Forbidden Love
⚔️ An Unforgettable Relic Quest
⚔️ So. Much. Yearning.

#RF #LuckyPit #PopUpPit #A #NA #R #F
March 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM