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tokan-crown.bsky.social @tokan-crown.bsky.social · May 7
RIPLEY x SONG OF ACHILLES

Wheelchair-using assassin flees Lagos to London in pursuit of a football player … responsible for his paralysis

💔 friends turned foes
❤️‍🔥crime of passion
🤎 BIPOC queer
♿️ unlikely assassin
🌶️ steamy thriller

#questpit #agentguide #Q #A #T #amquerying #ownvoices
Manuscript title: Boys of those days now Pitch: wheelchair-using assassin embarks on a cross-continent chase towards the celebrity footballer responsible for his paralysis Comps: Bath haus, Blessings, Song of Achilles, The talented Mr Ripley Opening: to murder from the convenience of a wheelchair is a calculable endeavour
tokan-crown.bsky.social
SALTBURN x SECRET HISTORY

❤️‍🔥queer romance
❤️‍🔥 BIPOC MCs
❤️‍🔥crime of passion
❤️‍🔥revenge quest
❤️‍🔥dual timeline
❤️‍🔥dual PIV
❤️‍🔥dark academia

#Posterpit #A #T #Queer #amquerying
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August 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
tokan-crown.bsky.social
Started crafting a new WIP. Feels yummy. Exciting. A gush of adrenaline. The possibilities are endless.

Wish I could stay in this haze forever but we all know how it goes

#writer #writingcommunity
June 15, 2025 at 4:55 AM
tokan-crown.bsky.social
RIPLEY x SONG OF ACHILLES

Wheelchair-using assassin flees Lagos to London in pursuit of a football player … responsible for his paralysis

💔 friends turned foes
❤️‍🔥crime of passion
🤎 BIPOC queer
♿️ unlikely assassin
🌶️ steamy thriller

#questpit #agentguide #Q #A #T #amquerying #ownvoices
Manuscript title: Boys of those days now Pitch: wheelchair-using assassin embarks on a cross-continent chase towards the celebrity footballer responsible for his paralysis Comps: Bath haus, Blessings, Song of Achilles, The talented Mr Ripley Opening: to murder from the convenience of a wheelchair is a calculable endeavour
May 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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melanielocke.bsky.social
#Questpit pitches:
First, my serious pitch for my querying WIP with agent's guide
melanielocke.bsky.social Melanie is querying @melanielocke.bsky.social · May 7
ONE DARK WINDOW x MALICE

Shadow sorceress Evelyn has been having nightmares of a monster seeking to use her powers. Together with witch Lydia she must find out what the monster wants from her, before she loses herself to it.

#questpit #A #F #Q #LGBT
Agent's guide title page: An agent's guide to Before the Shadows Fall. A 98K sapphic adult fantasy with gothic elements. Background: dark green with trees, a pale woman with black hair and a strapless dress holding a rose Pitch: All unwilling princess Evelyn wants is an escape. Caged in a palace, she grieves the loss of her twin brother, struggles to control the shadow sorcery inside of her, and lately she’s been having nightmares—the same nightmares her brother had before he died. She sees a monster that demands she use her magic in its service. If Evelyn ever wants any peace, she must get the monster out of her head. Witch and healer Lydia sets out to investigate a dark presence that’s settled in the forest near her village. She discovers a connection between the monster that lurks in her forest and threatens her village and Princess Evelyn’s the shadow sorcery. To keep her people safe, Lydia needs Evelyn’s help. Trope map. Same picture as previously. For fans of: Malice, One Dark Window, The Crimson Crown, Harrow the 9th. Mentioned tropes: childhood friends to lovers, recovery after trauma, twin who may or may not be dead, a fucked up deer (and other monsters), shadow magic, nature based healing magic, goth gf x cottagecore gf Excerpt: The falling sun cast long shadows. They danced to Evelyn and covered her. Evelyn let out a sob, or perhaps something closer to a scream. The raw emotion punched Lydia in the gut, but Evelyn needed support. Lydia couldn’t leave her to deal with this alone. “Evelyn, I am so sorry. I know how hard this must be for you, and it’s okay to feel whatever you must be feeling.” Evelyn growled, the shadows around her grew. “Lydia, I need you to step away.” “I won’t leave you—” “Stay away!” Evelyn screamed and as she did a wave of shadows burst out. It stopped just before crashing into Lydia, and floated back where it belonged. Evelyn glanced up, tears glistering in her eyes. “I don’t want to hurt you.”
May 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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emmaalmunshi.bsky.social
Presenting to the #questpit & #writingcommunity crew…

Reasons to love To Ruin the Sky ⚡️

Kingdom of the Wicked x Crescent City
♥︎Led by a sassy, 'shadow mommy' FMC
🫶🏼Fresh take on Romantasy
🪞#MiddleEasternRep
🚨Fills that Xaden-shaped hole in your life
#agentsguide #RF #Q #NA #writersky
Reasons to love To Ruin the Sky ELECTRIC SEXUAL TENSION. Excerpt reads: There's a possessiveness in how he touches me and I wish I hated it. "How would you punish me?" I breathe out, unable to control my impulses. Fingers touch my zip as he slowly slips it down, millimetre by millimetre. My body is completely in his thrall, unable to decipher the beat of my heart from the thump of the speaker's bass. Cloudy background with one half of a lightning bolt MORALLY-GREY IS THE COLOUR OF CHOICE... Two moodboards with information about the two main characters INCLUDES TOP TIER TROPES... Four book comparisons: Crescent City, Kingdom of the Wicked, Book of Azrael, Quicksilver with tropes attached The other half of a lightning bolt with a cloudy background
May 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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wisteraverse.bsky.social
Godkiller❌Damsel
👑The chosen Empress is assassinated
🗡️Her gutsy, disabled ex-GF must defeat a dysfunctional family of gods or be enslaved forever instead of her.
❤️Forbidden Love
🌶️Hot Banter & Dark Humor
🏳️‍🌈LGBT, BIPOC,♿️ female-lead
🫂Found Family
#questpit #Q #YA #F #RF #SFF
#writingcommunity
Pitch: When the chosen Empress is assassinated, her disabled and gutsy ex-girlfriend must triumph over a dysfunctional family of ancient gods or submit to fulfilling the chosen’s grim fate as the gods’ eternal slave and weapon against mortals. 90,000 words YA Crossover Fantasy Comps: Damsel (2024 film) Hannah Kaner’s Godkiller T. Kingfisher’s A Sorceress Comes to Call Margaret Owen’s Little Thieves Themes & Tropes: - Forbidden Love - Hot Banter - Feminine Rage - Anti-Chosen - Found Family - Second Chances - Dark Humor - Identity - Friends-to-lovers - Faustian Bargain - Choosing vs. being chosen - Dual-Timeline Representation: - LGBTQIA+ - BIPOC - Mental Health - Disability - Neurodivergence - Chronic Illness Moodboard: Dark fantasy Victorian vibes with purple color composition. Top row, left-to-right: a Byronic handsome man in black, a palace, a dark figure burning in hell fire, a masked female assassin of dark complexion holding a dagger, a serpentine forest trail at night marked with red flowers. At the center next to a silver plume is the text: “This world, my dear, is the slaughterhouse of noble ideals.” Bottom row, left-to-right: a dark gaslit street, a gaslit city blanketed in coal smog at night, a young woman in a Victorian gown, wrought-iron gates opened to a foreboding foggy estate in the dark, a trail of red petals leading to a dark stone temple gate. Excerpt: A gaunt mouse nibbled greedily at a stale bread roll left on my lunch tray. I didn’t have the heart to give her a name as I might lose her too. The lingering scent of mud and mildew hung in the air, a long-forgotten tomb. I clenched my jaw to keep my teeth from chattering. The bed’s cast iron rods dug into my ribs through the thin mattress. The medications I was forced to swallow left a cotton taste in my mouth and a dull ache in my skull. The faded floral pattern of the peeling wallpaper was my only reminder of life beyond these walls. I pulled the threadbare blanket tighter around my body, hugging my knees to my chest. It did little against the chill creeping into my bones. The raging blizzard had transformed the courtyard into a churning white sea, rattling the broken window shutters hanging askew. At least no screams echoed through the halls today.
May 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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thekellerverse.bsky.social
In the Service of Gods and Admirals

Mass Effect x Treasure Planet

🎬 New Adult Scifi/fantasy
🚂 Steampunk
♀️ FMC
🚀Solar-Sail Spaceships
🔮 Crystal magic
🧠 PTSD
🦸‍♀️ Reluctant hero
🪐 Planet Hopping
👽 Many Alien species
⚖️ justice/redemption/revenge

#Questpit #W #SFF

#writingcommunity
May 7, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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jenniferluce.bsky.social
SUCH SHARP TEETH X OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA

When a soul-devouring woman cursed with a sinister fox spirit falls in love with her final victim, she decides to end her killing spree; but the fox has plans of its own and it refuses to let one man stand in its way.

#QuestPit #A #H #R #PR #W
Background of Seattle alley with the following pictures: a woman with a red umbrella, a mouth with fangs, a silhouette of a woman, a korean woman, a couple about to kiss, a bloodied womans face
May 7, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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willelm.bsky.social
ARCANE X THE BLADE ITSELF

Three people ripped apart by fate. Each step they take drives them further apart and plunges the world into chaos. Can they find each other before they perish or will evil forces use them to break the world forever? 🗡️🩸🌲
SHADOW OF THE ELDERS

#QuestPit #P #A #F #DF
Community Troy pizza meme. Tory holding pizza reads "Savique trying to find his family" Bottom fires read "blood feud", "endless drought", "ancient puzzles", and "cultists" Invincible that's the neat part you don't meme. Mark Grayson as Vaten asks When do I get to go home again. Nolan Grayson as Zejela says, that's the neat part, you don't.
May 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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chrisakins.bsky.social
Grim Portents

HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE X CONSTANTINE

A man is murdered by a hell-beast on his wedding day. Now, with the help of the reaper who collected his soul, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell if he wants to return to the life he was robbed of

📖 #Q #A #DF #PR #Hu #H #QuestPit
Cover for Grim Portents featuring a skeleton hand gripping a feather, emerging from a flaming book over a maze Poster Cover for Grim Portents featuring Bill and Sonny. Bill is a dark featured man in a suit and kind of a Mark Ruffalo vibe. Sonny is a rotting corpse man with a cardigan. Behind them are a girl with glowing eyes and a glowing book, a woman with a shotgun, two shadow creatures, and the face of a demon. The words GRIM PORTENTS are big and in a classic Indiana Jones Style font "I always told myself it wasn't real. It was a figment of my imagination, the mind playing tricks. It was just a shadow. But now the monster had been given a name, an identity. It was real." BILL BAKER WANTS NOTHING MORE THAN TO MARRY THE WOMAN HE LOVES, BUT WHEN HIS WEDDING IS INTERRUPTED BY A RAMPAGING HELL-BEAST, HIS LIFE IS THROWN INTO DISARRAY. DESPERATE FOR A SECOND CHANCE, HE WILL DO ANYTHING TO SET HIS FUTURE BACK ON TRACK. NOW, WITH THE HELP OF A SOUL-COLLECTING REAPER NAMED SONNY, HE MUST UNCOVER WHO IS RELEASING MONSTERS FROM HELL, IN ORDER TO EARN BACK THE LIFE THAT WAS STOLEN FROM HIM AND PREVENT THE ONCOMING END OF DAYS. FACED WITH THE CHOICE BETWEEN WHAT IS RIGHT, AND WHAT IS EASY, BILL MAY HAVE TO SACRIFICE ALL HE HOLDS DEAR FOR ONE LAST SHOT AT LIFE.
May 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
tokan-crown.bsky.social
Talented Mr Ripley x Song of Achilles

… If PATROCLUS were a vengeful wheelchair-using ASSASSIN on the hunt for a globetrotting ACHILLES who’s really a celebrated BLACK soccer sensation shrouding his sexuality in ruse

🦼🏟️⚽️🥅🏆🔪❤️‍🔥👨🏾‍🤝‍👨🏿💔💘

#Questpit #Q #A #T #ownvoices
Mood board for thriller manuscript featuring queer black males holding hands, a sports trophy, a soccer ball hitting the net, a gun in a gift box, a wheelchair wheel, kink chain hanging from a man’s neck
May 7, 2025 at 7:04 AM
tokan-crown.bsky.social
Talented Mr Ripley x Song of Achilles

… If PATROCLUS were a vengeful wheelchair-using ASSASSIN on the hunt for a globetrotting ACHILLES who’s really a celebrated BLACK soccer sensation shrouding his sexuality in ruse

🦼🏟️⚽️🥅🏆🔪❤️‍🔥👨🏾‍🤝‍👨🏿💔💘

#Questpit #Q #A #T #ownvoices
Mood board for thriller manuscript featuring queer black males holding hands, a sports trophy, a soccer ball hitting the net, a gun in a gift box, a wheelchair wheel, kink chain hanging from a man’s neck
May 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM
tokan-crown.bsky.social
Good luck to everyone participating in #questpit today. One of the most fun pitch events 😆. Will dipping in n out as much as work permits 😃 #writers #writingcommunity
May 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
tokan-crown.bsky.social
Vigorous reminder #writers #writingcommunity !!
March 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
tokan-crown.bsky.social
Good morning 🦋 #writingcommunity May I be a sap and make you all My Valentine’s 💖
February 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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uwestenderphd.bsky.social
Happy #MSWL Day!
Check out my current wishlist. Please, peruse my interest in Adult Thrillers/Suspense AND Narrative Nonfiction in particular.
www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/uw...
Uwe Stender – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website
www.manuscriptwishlist.com
February 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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hannahweatherill.bsky.social
Reposting my wishlist here for #MSWL day: www.watsonlittle.com/agent/hannah...

I'd love to find more thrillers and suspense (especially with a horror edge), and general commercial and upmarket fiction. Give my colleagues a try for romantasy and literary fiction!
Hannah Weatherill - Watson Little
I joined Watson, Little in 2024 after four years as an agent at Northbank Talent Management and a year at Penguin Random House UK. I’m building a varied list of commercial and upmarket fiction and non...
www.watsonlittle.com
February 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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annetibbets.bsky.social
Hello and a wonderful #MSWL day to you!
Big thank you to @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social
Here's my QM querytracker.net/query/AnneTi...
Wanted: Commercial Fiction
Psychological Horror, Mind-twisting Thriller, Millennial Cozy Mystery, Feminist Historical.
Query Anne Tibbets at Donald Maass Literary Agency
QueryTracker.net
February 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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elanaroth.bsky.social
I haven't done an #MSWL day in a hot minute. I'm not open to queries just yet. Probably March? But my general categories don't tend to change that much... I updated my page here anyway:
www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/el...
Elana Roth Parker – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website
www.manuscriptwishlist.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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rachelle-lit-agent.bsky.social
#MSWL We're open to queries! You can find us on QueryTracker and all the usual places. See our submissions page here:
rachellegardner.com/submissions/
Submissions | Rachelle Gardner
To have your project considered, it’s important that you do two things: (1) Make sure you know if your project fits into what I’m looking for, and (2) Read and follow our submission guidelines.
rachellegardner.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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rebeccaesk.bsky.social
Hi writers!!! I heard it was #MSWL day! You can find my most recent thread here. 😁
February 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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theweisagency.bsky.social
Don’t see your book on my #MSWL? No worries!

If your work has a powerful and provocative plot with a consistent voice and compelling characters, I’d love to check it out!
February 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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theweisagency.bsky.social
Here's a quick #mswl for Jennifer Weis, our Senior Literary Agent! Queries should be submitted through QueryTracker (querytracker.net/agent/10781) or email (jweis@theweisagency.com).
A graphic with images of mountains, hearts, and a smiley face. The text reads, "Fiction: high-concept thrillers with rarified or unusual settings, romance and women's fiction featuring characters that readers truly care about - especially with happy endings!" A graphic with images of a handshake, a person getting an idea, a dollar sign, and a woman. The text reads, "Non-fiction: provocative and well-told non-fiction about politics, psychology, business; memoir and narrative non-fiction, especially about topics of special interest to women"
November 11, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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ameliaappel.bsky.social
Happy #MSWL day! Thank you to @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social for putting this together and hello querying writers! I'm super excited to announce that I have updated my MSWL and officially reopened to queries! Check out what I'm looking for below 💙
www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/am...
Amelia Appel – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website
www.manuscriptwishlist.com
February 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM