Thank you for all the support during #questpit it’s been so much fun seeing all the amazing pitches & making new friends! 😍
01.02.2026 13:36 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@milliesun.bsky.social
SmoochPit '25 mentee for my Imperial Chinese-inspired fantasy romcom
Thank you for all the support during #questpit it’s been so much fun seeing all the amazing pitches & making new friends! 😍
01.02.2026 13:36 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0FOR SHE IS WRATH x WILD REVERENCE
✨ D&D-inspired adventure
🗡️ A quest for revenge that becomes a quest to save the world
🪽 A morally grey angel with a sword
🐍 A tragic human who makes all the wrong decisions
❤️🔥 Angsty, conflicted yearning
⏳ Dual-timeline, dual-POV
#QuestPit #Q #F #RF
Posting again for the later crew.
#QuestPit #Q #A #T #SP #SF #HF 🦋
A whimsical fairytale castle framed in ornate yellow scrollwork. Bold text reads “Kinda Charming.” Beneath it: “Most fairytales have a prince. This one got Neil.”
A magical castle background with golden scrollwork frames the description: “Kinda Charming – An upper middle grade fantasy-adventure for fans of Percy Jackson and The Land of Stories, blending fairytale tropes, awkward heroes, and laugh-out-loud mishaps in a magical kingdom where being kind-of-charming might be enough to save the day.”
A gingerbread house icon tops three humorous fairytale quotes in front of a forested castle: “Never trust a house you can snack on.” “Seems safe. Completely normal.” “That’s fairytale logic.” Below, it reads: “Welcome to Kinda Charming – where princesses have better options, villains get surprise audits, and sometimes the chandelier is mightier than the sword.”
Text set over a fairytale forest and castle reads: “Kinda Charming Comps.” Below it is a list of similar middle grade fantasy books: Never After by Melissa de la Cruz Once Upon Another Time and The Revenge of Magic by James Riley The Accidental Apprentice by Amanda Foody Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston A Tale of Magic... by Chris Colfer
Hi! I’m Ben, author of Kinda Charming!
Most fairytales have a prince. This one got Neil. (And he doesn't know what he's doing.)
For fans of Percy Jackson & Land of Stories this book has:
🗡 Awkward heroes
🏰 Twisted tropes
😂 Laugh-out-loud mishaps
#Q #amquerying #MG #Fantasy
SCHITT’S CREEK in a tollbooth.
Newly unemployed, a gay diabetic divorcé moves back to Boston, takes a Mass Pike job for insurance, and gets pulled into a fight over automation that forces him to confront who he was and who he wants to be.
TWO RIGHTS AND A LEFT – 74k
#QuestPit #A #Q #U #LGBT
SINNERS x INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE x BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL
❤️Vampire marriage bonds
🖤Dark secrets Femmine rage
🖕🏾Black/African rage Ancestral Magic
💔Narrative that spans 200 years 🖤🖤Forgotten memories
❤️Ride or die love
#QuestPit #Q #A #F #R
Front window of the Fake Theater on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles.
Woven through chillingly honest monologues, five disparate Queer men ride out the whims of a cold-blooded desert in a shabby Palm Springs apartment complex—where one man’s foolish scheme for survival leads to his ironic flameout on Election Day 2016.
#QUESTPIT #Q #A #LF #DR #LGBTQ
Here's my second-chance, forced proximity, slowburn, autumnal Edinburgh, with the bet trope romance novel, DON'T FORGET ME.
💻 she's a hispanic tortured writer & poet
🎥 he's a producer offering her a movie deal
💔 but he's a ghost from her past
#Q #R #NA #amquerying #questpit
Image of forbidden loves Simone & Jadriel from my book: THE TRUTH OF FEAR. A Young Adult Feminist Horror, by Jenn Lee Frances. Taglines: Touch Him & Burn. Kiss Her & Die Accolades: Best Submission Award SCBWI MAYFEST conference 2025 *BIG 5 Editor RequestS & Write Hive 2025 Mentorship Winner* *Commissioned art by @demonyong_nini
Image of creepy ghost girl, Nina, The East River Wraith. With the tagline: DEATH IS COMING. THE PITCH: When grief-stricken Simone summoned her murdered cousin, the girl who emerged from the shadowy depths wasn't Nina anymore. They call her by another name—The East River Wraith. She’s a malevolent spirit who drowns deserving boys. Simone should help her find peace, but the truth is, she’d rather let Nina be a vengeful ghost than ever lose her again. Except, now The Wraith is taking her rage out on the wrong boy. The one boy Simone has always trusted. Simone is risking her first love’s life & her cousin’s afterlife by holding on to them both. But she can’t let go again.
The First Page of my book: The Drowning Girl started haunting my dreams again when my cousin went missing. She was waiting for me every time I shut my eyes in the harrowing weeks before Nina was found and dragged from the river. If I’d known I was foreseeing my cousin’s death most of my life, maybe I could’ve changed it. All I could do was try to help her in the afterlife. Gran always said when one dies a traumatic death their spirit can get stuck in a loop, reliving that violence over and over. I couldn’t let her exist that way. So, I called upon her, with a simple altar placed alongside the memorials for the others who were pulled out of the East River that frigid fall. Striking the long wooden match, I shielded the flame from the wind with my wounded palm, determined to light the final candle. The first for the grieved. The second for protection. The third for invoking that which shouldn’t be spoken. One should never summon the dead. They can always find you. Follow you. Attach themselves to you. I knew better, but I didn’t want my cousin to be trapped. I really just needed to see Nina again. But it wasn’t her who came.
THE COMPS BOTTOM TAGLINE: A NEW URBAN LEGEND # THE EAST RIVER WRAITH 3 images of books that would sit on the same shelf as my book: Swoon Worthy like DON’T LET THE FOREST IN: Literary & Commercial Bi 4 Pan Queer Romance Dangerous Codependence Social Commentary Like in SO WITCHES WE BECAME # Good For Her Rage, Revenge, & Reclaiming Power Complicated Family As seen in THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE (Netflix show & Book) Bent Neck Lady Vibes Foreseeing Death & It’s Looking Back
BENT NECK LADY VIBES
🖤Best Submission Award
🖤Big 5 Editor Requests
Simone summoned her murdered cousin, but she wasn't Nina anymore.
MEET THE NEW URBAN LEGEND—
#TheEastRiverWraith
A Good For Her Horror with Romance & Revenge & Reclaiming Power
A Revised #AgentsGuide
Upper #YA #NA #H #Q #Questpit
a light grey silk background with a drawing of Chinese woman wearing a black dress with her hair pinned up and a Chinese-Italian man wearing a black suit, with white text that reads "Fashionable Love", "An Agent's Guide to An Adult Contemporary Romance by Yolanda Tang #W"
a light grey silk background with a drawing of Chinese-Italian man wearing white on the left, and a drawing of a Chinese woman wearing grey on the right, with white text that reads "Pitch", "Blythe Shen is fighting to keep her place as heiress and the next Chair of the board. Elias De Luca wants answers about his legacy. But when a scandalous photograph of two lifelong fashion heir rivals surfaces after a reckless night, Blythe seizes the opportunity and does the unthinkable: proposes a collaboration between their rival houses. What begins as a strategic partnership quickly turns into a no strings attached arrangement meant to keep emotions off the runway. But as trust is stitched into their collaboration and competition begins to fray, they must decide whether to keep their pride and inheritance neatly tailored, or unravel for the one person they were never meant to love."
a light grey silk background with white text that reads "Comps and Tropes" book covers and tropes listed below. books: Twisted Hate, Not in Love, Not in My Book, The Heart Principle. tropes: Childhood Rivals to Lovers, No Strings Attached Arrangement, Asian Romance, Forced Proximity, Slow-Burn Trust
A 3×3 mood board collage. Includes two fashion-style character illustrations, two fashion sketches, text reading “I want to ki__ you (answers may vary)” and “Are you flirting or starting a fight?”, two black-and-white and softly lit photos of couples leaning in close, and drawings of a stylish man and woman facing each other at night.
TWISTED HATE x NOT IN LOVE
A scandalous night stitches two lifelong rival fashion heirs. She’s fighting for control of her empire. He’s chasing the truth about his legacy. A no-strings collaboration threatens to unravel when emotions get involved.
#QuestPit #W #RF
A collage of ocean, coastal academic images with droplets of fantasy and mystery.
BENEATH THE WHISPERING COVE is a gothic coastal fantasy about a young woman’s quest to uncover a missing book of folktales and secure her research funding.
The misty water-logged mystery of A STUDY IN DROWNING with the folkloric richness of A DARK AND DROWNING TIDE
#questpit #YA #F
Dark, moody fantasy moodboard with imagery suggesting magic, forged weapons, and emotional power, created for an adult fantasy novel pitch.
DAWN OF THE CICADA
adult fantasy, 105,000 words
Disney-style enchantment with folklore teeth.
Her enemies wield steel; Lisara wields their darkest emotions, animating them into living weapons that could consume her as easily as her foes.
#questpit #F #Q #RF
Book Cover Art: Woman with blonde-white hair wears tie-dye shirt with skull and digitized armor, sword, and angelic wings growing out of her back. She wears sneakers with wings on them and features a bright halo circle around her head. Title: CYBER-SERIAL: POSTMODERN PROMETHEUS Author: DYLAN OROSZ
In the SMMORPG Aion Creeds, Gabriel Addams plays Ragæol, archangel with abyssteel armor and sword of lightning; offline, she is an ex-hacker writing her first novel, titled: CYBER-SERIAL: POSTMODERN PROMETHEUS. (About: AGI serial killer of trillionaires and e-girl gf.)
#QuestPit
An agent’s guide to RIBBONS OF MIND!
A twist on Sleeping Beauty but with elemental magic, war, and far more dragons.
🐉⚔️❤️🔥🧠🧙🏼♀️
#questpit #NA #Editing #romantasy #pitch #agentsguide
Faded red 69 Chevy Malibu on a Palm Springs street
Jobs disappear, rent increases, food banks, car running on empty, an aching tooth beckons bankruptcy, a blossoming culture of meanness and nasty edges.
In this, our new world, Levi fights to rebuild his finances and broken spirit.
America, how did we get here?
#QUESTPIT #Q #A #LF #DR #LGBTQ
When biro gnome Tarquin is captured by scheming humans, a posse of his faerie-folk friends must negotiate the M25, a Cabinet Meeting, and a plot involving illegal fertilizer to rescue him and save their magical home. #Questpit #MG #Q #humor #adventure
31.01.2026 15:47 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Crimson Peak x Lake House
She longs for a place to belong.
He longs for someone to see him. Two soul in separate times living in a manor passing by one another.
#QuestPit #W #A #RF
Agent's Guide to: Love Hits Big by Dana Ripley Adult/Contemporary/Rom-Com @danaripleywrites Background: Pink to yellow gradient background color Image: Cartoon roller skates w/ legs in fishnet stockings
Janey Pfeiffer, better known as Daisy Chainsaw, cares about two things in life—roller derby and running the Little Paws animal rescue. After meeting the straight-laced Alan Monroe at a Fireball-fueled roller derby after party, she invites him for a one-night stand. Their encounter turns into a full-blown situationship, and Janey falls harder for Alan than from a brutal hip check on the derby track. When Alan’s determination to save his family construction business puts him on a collision course with the struggling Little Paws, Janey must decide whether to sacrifice her heart as she races to save the animals she loves. @danaripleywrites Background: pink to yellow gradient Images: legs in fishnet stockings w/ roller skates
COMPS Odd Couple Vibes: People we Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry Humor and Emotion: Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez Fur friends helping humans fall in love: Pardon my Frenchie by Farrah Rochon Roller derby vibes and empowerment: Leave it on the Track by Margot Fisher and Whip It @danaripleywrites Background: Pink to yellow gradient Images: Legs with fishnet stockings, wearing roller skates
Tropes/Vibes Banging into love Bisexual FMC MMC falls first (and fast) Opposites attract (dive bar vibes vs country club vibes) Friends-with-benefits with a splash of fake dating Fighting to save what they love Chosen family @danaripleywrites background: pink to yellow gradient images: Roller skate image instead of bullet points for trope list
In LOVE HITS BIG, a free-spirited roller derby skater crashes unexpectedly into love with a man who is on a collision course to demolish the animal shelter she runs.
This novel is for people who love steamy sports romance and romantic comedies with sharp banter.
#questpit #W #A #R
HE HAUNTS ME NOT
DEAD ROMANTICS x WEDNESDAY
🖤Forced Proximity
🤍Human x Ghost Lovers
🖤Seances
🤍Witty Banter
🖤Gothic Elements
🤍Found Family
#Q #questpit #A #R #PR
THE VISCOUNT WHO LOVED ME x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
MY SWEET UNBECOMING, an adult gothic romance with:
🕯️Forbidden Romance
🕯️High Society matchmaking
🕯️Black Swan-esque awakening
🕯️Obsessive yearning
🕯️European setting
🕯️Secret lake meetings
#W #A #R #questpit
Introducing an updated #agentsguide for A KINGDOM TO DROWN ME
✨Arab folklore & exploration of the myth of djinn
💎Unique magic system & world
🪞Explores inner demons & mental health
⚖️Corruption & greed as central to conflict
🧿23 full requests
#questpit #Q #RF #agentguide
Movie poster-style graphic for novel called ‘ALL YOUR QASAMS’ with author’s name Neha Yazmin underneath the bold title. Image is a close-up of a young south Asian girl in south Asian bridal wear and jewellery, smiling down at her maroon outfit. Along the top of the poster are the names of two comparison book titles ‘NEVER HAVE I EVER’ and “THE BEST LAID PLANS”. In the left corner of the poster, are three 5-star movie review-style texts pertaining to different aspects of the book. 1: “South Asian Main Cast. 2: “Friends to lovers with a difference” 3: “Bengali teens in STEM”.
Moodboard for ALL YOUR QASAMS with a quote from the novel reading, ‘You are madness incarnate’ and five images: picture of a hot chocolate drink and heart-shaped cookies, a couple embracing during a boat ride, a young south Asian girl in south Asian bridal wear and jewellery smiling down at her maroon outfit, a close-up of a young man kissing the forehead of a young woman, a close-up the joined hands of a south Asian bride and groom, a young man in an aesthetic library reading a hardcover text book. The moodboard has the premise of the story written above it, which reads: “17-year-old Kavi thinks this year is her last chance to meet a boy and fall in love—due to a certain Qasam—and is out to find a boyfriend. Enter Aaron Mirza. He’s perfect, smitten. So, she must be perfect too. Her childhood best friend Ryhan will show her the ropes and become her Practice Boyfriend, right? But Ryhan has a secret, which could ruin everything. And if Kavi’s strict grandfather learns about her boyfriends, the real one or the fake, he’ll crush her dreams of moving to Scotland for her Medicine Degree.”
Crime?
I made my BFF a practice boyfriend so I could become the perfect girlfriend to my actual boyfriend
Defence?
It was my only shot at love & relationships; it had to be perfect
Sentence:
Threat of losing everything—even my dreams of studying Medicine in🏴—if the truth comes out
#QuestPit #YA #Q
SHE WHO HOLDS THE SEA
PRINCESS MONONOKE X THE POPPY WAR X ATLA
🔥 female rage
🧞♀️ goddesses
🏝️ inspired by pre colonial Jamaica
2️⃣ dual-pov
💓 yearning
💪🏾 a FMC determined to save her people
🌊 fire and sea magic
🐉 dragons
🗡️ anti-colonial
#Q #QuestPit #F #YA #A #H
An Agent's guide to: THE SHAPES WE TAKE IN THE FIRE!
✌️dual pov/dual timeline
🌶️ open door slow burn
🎶 moody and lyrical
❤️ he falls first
🫂 touch starved
LGBTQ friendly
BIPOC & minority voices
#questpit #Q #A #R #U
Pink background with frame, and the title "UnQueenly", a silhouette of a girl in a ball gown followed by the silhouette of a small dragon. Beneath the silhouettes are the words "1 Prince. 8 Trials. 20 contestants. A lot of murders. Querying."
Excerpt from UnQueenly
Character moodboard for Calista, a blue clad, romantic, studious witch
Character moodboard for Alice, a gothic fury.
A witch’s last hope for answers. A prince’s hand decided by trials. And a tiny pink dragon content to nap in cloak hoods.
Meet two of the contestants fighting for the Prince: Calista and Alice!
(Currently Querying "UNQUEENLY", with some fulls + partials so far!)
#Q #F #RF #NA #A #Questpit
This moodboard is so cute!
01.02.2026 00:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0TWISTED HATE x NOT IN LOVE
A scandalous night stitches two lifelong rival fashion heirs. She’s
fighting for control of her empire. He’s chasing the truth about his
legacy. A no-strings collaboration threatens to unravel when
emotions get involved.
#QuestPit #R
A MEMORY OF MOONKISSED MALICE Fantasy Dark Academia Feminine Rage Vampires Corrupted Moon Magic Villain Era Protag Queendoms Enemies to Lovers Found Family
THE PITCH 18-year-old Alyss Veylas wishes to attend Nocturne Collegiate for one reason—revenge. Five long years after her sister was murdered by the school's guardian, she finally gets that chance. Armed with a Moon Fragment granting memory magic and the aid of her ex and his new girlfriend, Alyss must confront the woman who took away the person she loved most. YA Gothic Fantasy 93,000 Words
CHAPTER ONE The rain made it easier to rob his grave. My shovel carved through the sodden earth, the water contorting into murky veins around its edge. Desperation drove each labored thrust, the burning ache in my muscles but an afterthought to the prize that lied in wait. Even the Valera Forest held its breath; the fog thick enough to smother the night's whispers. All was silent save for the spilling of soil under the deluge that drenched us. Us. As I lifted my gaze to the boy standing across from me, I found that word had lost all semblance of warmth.
FOR FANS OF... The lush, gothic prose of... A fantasy academia setting similar to... A supernatural mystery like...
ONE DARK WINDOW X KATABASIS
Nocturne Collegiate is celebrated as a sanctuary from warring Queendoms and brutal vampires, but Alyss knows better—its guardian murdered her sister, and now she's come for revenge.🌙🦇⚔️
#QuestPit #OS #AG #YA #F
Love this!!!
01.02.2026 00:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"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.
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