THE BONE COLLECTOR. a light green background, comps: Eragon, Where the Dark Stands Still, The Last Unicorn, The Counterpart, and Daughter of the Bone Forest. There are floral elements, bones, and art in the top and bottom right corners. "Pitch:
Raised to compete to become her father’s heir, Olena Thunderchild has kept her bone magic a secret all her life. But when a plague threatens her siblings and village, she treks into the mythical woods to find the “cure.” With the support of two Animal Weavers, Olena learns how to be a Bone Breaker and the ways of the world." "Snippet:
Olena cinches the purse shut, turning it over to study the intricate threads and beads of the outside. Black spiders with brown dots and dark green vines flow across the maroon fabric. Olena traces them like she imagines her mother did. Did she keep her bones in it too? Did she collect bones at all, or were Bone Breakers not supposed to store the dead so close?"
Olena needs to find a dragon to save her family, but everywhere she turns a new myth sprouts up. Including herself.
🌿death/bone magic
🪻inspired by slavic folklore
🌞mythical coming of age
🪻missing someone you never knew
🌿a magical band of misfits
#questpit #YA #F #AG
31.01.2026 21:37 — 👍 30 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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
31.01.2026 22:13 — 👍 30 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
“Once you’re here, you’re part of it, and it’s part of you.”
An excerpt from THE NUTCRACKER GAMBLE, my adult contemporary romcom with a sapphic romance 🩰
#questpit #R #A #W #LGBT
31.01.2026 21:50 — 👍 27 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
YOU WERE HAPPIER BEFORE THE BABY. Psychological Horror. Lit Fic.
She would offer rest and take only what was already being pushed away.
She was the woman in the mirror.
She did not deceive.
She did not trick.
She waited.
And eventually, she replaced.
#questpit #q #a #h #lf
01.02.2026 02:29 — 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Feed Me Your Heart - Intro Page
Themes for Feed Me Your Heart
Comps for Feed Me Your Heart
Pitch for Feed Me Your Heart
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
31.01.2026 05:10 — 👍 77 🔁 36 💬 11 📌 0
Split promotional slide on a dark navy background. Left side shows a book-cover style illustration: a silhouetted girl inside two cupped hands, standing in golden-green fields under a starry sky with swirling light. The title reads “HEIRS OF BALANCE” and the author name “LESLEY PARRY.” Right side text reads: “YA Science-Fantasy, 90,000 words. STUDIO GHIBLI meets ANDOR where healing is heresy and compassion sparks rebellion.” Handle “@lesleyparrybooks” and hashtags appear beneath.
A five-panel moodboard framed by black borders. Top-left shows two small figures standing on a hill under a dramatic night sky with the text: “What if medicine was illegal… and you had the power to heal?” Center panel shows shows glowing hands in a forest. Top-right shows an overgrown, glass-domed eco-building rising from a misty valley. Bottom-left a bright green rural settlement with wind turbines in the background. Bottom-right shows a cozy tabletop scene with a mortar and pestle, herbs, and jars, suggesting herbal remedies or healing craft.
“The Story” slide on a dark navy background with a buff watercolor brush stroke across the top. Large serif headline reads “The Story.” Body text summarizes the plot: in a post-apocalyptic world where medicine and touching the sick are forbidden, nineteen-year-old Mira Elders discovers she can heal after saving a dying child; she poses as a Watcher, finds love, is betrayed and taken to the Citadel, and learns a long-buried truth that healing caused the world’s collapse; she must choose to bury her power or use it to spark an empathy revolution.
“If you liked…” slide on a dark navy background with a buff textured brush stroke across the diagonal. Three book covers are centered across the slide: The Nature of Witches (left), The Grace Year (middle), and The Scarlet Alchemist (right). Captions beneath each read: “eco-magic + atmosphere” (left), “oppression + survival stakes” (middle), and “illegal craft + moral cost” (right).
For readers who loved THE NATURE OF WITCHES, THE GRACE YEAR, and THE SCARLET ALCHEMIST:
🌿 post-collapse hopepunk
🧬 science that feels like magic
❤️🔥 slow-burn romance
🥹 found family
HEIRS OF BALANCE
REP: 🧠 ND 🤎 BIPOC 🌈 LGBTQ+
#QuestPit #Q #SFF #RF #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying
31.01.2026 23:00 — 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Title page and info about Saltwater Saints
Saltwater Saints pitch
Comp titles for Saltwater Saints
Excerpt from Saltwater Saints and themes & tropes
An #agentsguide to SALTWATER SAINTS
Shep, Harvey, and Ray must survive a friendship destroying secret—as well as the other trials and tribulations of being in your late twenties—to save a beloved island landmark from the scheme of a conniving politician.
#questpit #q #a
31.01.2026 12:42 — 👍 83 🔁 28 💬 5 📌 0
DEBUTANTE
It's giving Bridgerton vibes, it's giving Divergent energy, it's giving young ladies vying for positions of power, not proposals. But don't worry, there's still plenty of ✨steam✨
#questpsit #q #f
31.01.2026 21:10 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
An image that looks like a playlist preview that reads: Welcome to the 35K word horror novella Windego
highlighting themes and elements of coercion and manipulation from the people who are supposed to love you, platonic soulmates and the ways they help us face trauma and native american folklore from a Bodéwadmi author
THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS x THE HOLLOW KIND
Windego is a 35K word supernatural horror novella based on Anishinaabe folklore set in West Texas exploring trauma, grief, and the power of friendship when finding yourself again after it all.
#questpit #Q #A #H #S
31.01.2026 21:08 — 👍 27 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
BLOOD OF THE RIVER DRAGON
Ning teams up with fellow mage Kaiyun to expose a disgraced noble house conspiring with demons to overthrow the guild master and plunge the realms into darkness.
🌊 Elemental magic
🩷 Peasant x exiled prince
🏠 Found family
🐉 Dragon shifters
#W #YA #F #RF #SFF #QuestPit
31.01.2026 21:07 — 👍 26 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
NIGHTBIRDS x INFINITY ALCHEMIST
What the hell is she supposed to do when a homicidal fascist regime makes her their priority target?!
Oh, and the ex she fled from is back, all-too forgiving after her electrical powers split his face open.
Burn it all down.🔥
#Q
#A #DF #F
#QuestPit
31.01.2026 21:05 — 👍 25 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
BABEL ON CALLISTO
Querying February 2025
@saraduranauthor
sara.duran@bsky.social
COMPS
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, labeled “isolated research station” and “philosophical alien threat.”
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw, labeled “queer, visceral horror” and “love as a consuming force.”
The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei, labeled “psychological unraveling” and “fracture under mission pressure.”
PITCH
“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.”
TASTE
“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—the 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.”
Coming soon to agent inboxes!
• • •
ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
💫two exiled men (and their secrets)
💫one lunar prison (and its horrors)
💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead
💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive
#SF #H #R #LGBT #amquerying #QuestPit
31.01.2026 05:00 — 👍 211 🔁 114 💬 14 📌 0
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.
CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END
When their detective friend is murdered at 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 #MY #Q
31.01.2026 08:21 — 👍 236 🔁 122 💬 20 📌 1
Optimistic writer with ADHD. Author of Heirs of Balance (science-based magic, empathy revolution). Musician, potter, gardener, builder of stories where healing changes everything. www.lesleyparrybooks.com
🇺🇸🇭🇰🇻🇳 Asian American, Aspiring Author, AroAce, Cat Lover
🏳️🌈 LGBTQA+ Characters
✨ Own Voices
🗽 NYC & New England Settings
❤️ Lover of Horror and Fantasy
SPED teacher by day, secret writer on the sly.
Mediocre Magic: The Gathering player, Bar Trivia Teammate, FF14 Treasure Hunter, Reader of Weird Books, Paint By Number Master, Documentary Hound, Owner of a three-legged cat.
DM to swap Beta reads!
Fantasy author currently querying WHERE SHADOWS BLEED
@author.a.kakadelas on TikTok
Newbie Illustrator; amateur writer; owner of two cat familiars.
Currently shopping out my urban fantasy novel set in an alternate version of Egypt in 1952.
Author of THE ETHEREALS. From the US, based in the UK.
Brazilian writer & actor based in Los Angeles, CA.
#amquerying
NO A.I.
Writer | Researcher | Tea Enthusiast
Studying an MA in publishing to become an editor
Writing fantasy & romance books to become an author
Reading anything and everything to travel to new worlds
This ATL🍑 is here in 2026
#RevPit '22 Winner
Freelance Journalist
Ghostwriter for 📖 & 🎶
Lupus Warrior
Wife
#CatMom
Gamer Girl
#AmWriting and #AmQuerying MG Speculative & Adult Upmarket Fiction
She/Her
www.CrystalSmallsWright.com
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NYC writer | strategist | mph
she/they 🧡🤍🩷
#amwriting VOW
the dutch-bangladeshi dark romance author for ✨girls with unreasonable standards who like men whose morals are stored in hell's basement and say "god forbid a man has hobbies and is passionate" atleast 50 times a day to be emotionally unstable✨
rep: n/a.
Querying my upmarket fiction novel, SALTWATER SAINTS 🌊
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Aspiring Fantasy Author
Querying my debut novel KINGDOM COLLEGE
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