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Two books on a desk, one purple (Oathbound by Tracy Deonn) one green (I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming). The purple has a fierce looking black teen girl wielding purple and red magic. The green book has a red-headed black woman in the arms of a horned alien with a lion and a dinosaur in the background.

Happy Oathbound release day!!! Ofc I went to the store and left with more than one book 🤭 #blackbooksky #booksky

Just had an amazing transit reading (as usual) with @dkastrology.bsky.social She’s so insightful and is able to predict positive things ($$ etc.) well before they occur. Any Astro girlies looking for a reading, highly recommend! She gave me the boost I needed to dive back into writing last yr 💫 💕

Artwork for Aaron’s YA fantasy novel, SOULCAST. In the image, the main character is in the midst of a deadly competition to save his mom’s soul from the Underworld. Next to him, the prince and his love interest is his prey.

HUNGER GAMES x COBAB x POWERLESS

Inspired by Central Africa's Underworld of Kalunga

A boy with dangerous magic must compete in a deadly competition to save his mom’s soul from the Underworld, but his growing love for the Prince threatens to destroy the kingdom

#Questpit #OS

Gas station NOSFERATU

A corpse mover embarks on a cross-country trek to deliver a deceased serial killer to a private collector. But as strange visions & uncanny encounters drive Rio toward madness, she finds that her cargo is neither dead nor alive—and it needs her help.

#Questpit #A #UF #WIP

My drawing of the protagonist of my novel, Ilion. They have pale skin and wavy chestnut hair down to their jaw. They're posed like the famous painting "The Fallen Angel" by Alexandre Cabanel, with their head tilted down, brown eyes glaring, a single tear falling from the corner of one eye. One arm crosses in front of their face, hands clenched together. They're wearing a white tunic with a blue belt and matching blue laurels in their hair. In the background, blue fire swirls ominously.

‪CIRCE x PHOENIX EXTRAVAGANT
Murdered by the Fates, made a god by plot unseen—Ilion only wants to go home. Armed with a lyre and a plucky attitude, to escape the afterworld and defy destiny they must master their fire or burn down the universe and everyone in it they love.
#Q #A #F #QuestPit #LGBT

Our Wives Under the Sea x Malibu Rising

In a beach town of people lost at sea & legends of sea creatures only told in secret, first heartbreak isn't only transformative on the inside–
it turns women into sirens who come back to drown the exes responsible

#QuestPit #Q #A #F #R

Animated image of a dark haired man in a long-sleeve black shirt and jeans with tattoos on his hands and neck holding a pool stick next to a pool table with colorful balls looking smolderingly at a blonde sitting across the bar in a black long sleeve shirt and black jeans with her head propped up on one hand and a drink in the other who looks back at him with the same desire.

HOOKED x TWISTED HATE x GOOD GIRL COMPLEX
❤️‍🔥Banter
❤️‍🔥Fake Hating
❤️‍🔥Forbidden Romance
❤️‍🔥Morally Gray MMC
❤️‍🔥HIGH Spice
❤️‍🔥Sex Contract
❤️‍🔥THE PLOT TWIST.

Everything I Once Had: Hatred has never been so hot.🔥🖤 #QuestPit #Q #A #R #DR

A man and a woman stand with a putple wyvern with a backsrop of a city, the plaentary rings anf a putple moon

ANNIHILATION x PERDIDO STREET STATION

Rescued at sea with no memory, Trigger’s body is changing into an unknown species. When a sunken lab's forbidden prayer protocol promises him answers, he risks tearing a hole in his head to find out who, or what, he is.

#QuestPit #SF #A #Q

A Japanese mythology portal fantasy with Ghibli aesthetics & Outlander stakes.
🌿 Sarcastic botanist
🫶 Broody yokai
✨ Modern-day Japan → Shinkai, a parallel realm of the Kami

#Q #NA #RF #M #questpit

TANGLED x ANASTASIA

In a realm where people go to forget their worst memories, an orphan with Tourette’s recruits an infuriating pickpocket to help her win her own memories back, hoping to recall her lost family.

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F

A moodboard showing the pirate (Amir), the princess (Mira), and John. Amir silhouetted against a cloudy sky with a sword slung over her shoulder and a group of joyful sailors on a pirate ship. She has this quote: Continue to love Continue to forgive Continue to grow Mira is shown in the reflection of an ornate mirror. She is wearing long white gloves and a pink ballgown with her hair in a natural updo and the lesbian pride flag is subtly depicted over her photo. There is another photo of two girls kissing in the surf at sunset. Mira has this quote: We looked at each other a little too long to be “just friends” John is shown with his bare back to the viewer, facing the sea with the trans pride flag subtly depicted over his photo. He also has a close up of iridescent mermaid scales and this quote: Go bravely, go deeply, or do not go

Pirates of the Caribbean—if Jack Sparrow were a vengeful sapphic ghost possessing a sapphic princess Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner went on a gender journey, and the curse could only be broken when two hearts meet the light—through love or bloodshed 🫀🗡️

#QuestPit #YA #F #W #LGBT

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#QuestPit Mega-thread for my adult sci-fi romance wip & my new adult romantasy currently in revisions (now dual-POV!) 💫

#SF #R #F #A #NA

Love love love omg

The House of Hemlock A WORK IN PROGRESS ONE DARK WINDOW meets STARLING HOUSE in this gothic dual POV adult romantic fantasy steeped in grief-torn promises, fate-bound strangers, and simmering tensions-where a house watches, gods scheme, and rot runs deep.

The Opening There was truth in blood—meant to spill, drain life, stain the earth, and leave death grinning in its wake. The first gods knew it. They shaped the earth with rivers of it, winding red veins through stone and moss, tangling it into the roots of trees that cracked the sky open with their branches. Blood was the first language, the thread stitching life to decay, shadow to light. It was the beginning and the end, the thread through all things. It sang louder than prayers and bound tighter than oaths. It was promise and debt, offering and curse. The gods demanded it-again and again—until the earth grew slick, not with dew, but with what they were owed. But even gods forget. They never asked what would become of blood left too long untended. It rots. It rises. It remembers.

The Vibes •Cursed magic and creeping rot (One Dark Window) •Haunted by prophetic visions (A Study in Drowning) •Nature’s eerie obedience (For the Wolf) •Gothic atmosphere and simmering tension (Down Comes the Night) •Sentient manor hiding secrets (Starling House) •Healing that defies the natural order (The Thirteenth Child) •Connection to death (Belladonna)

A dark, spooky, nature-inspired gothic mood board

A grief-torn healer, bent on vengeance against the god who claimed all she loved in death and decay, uses her craft to infiltrate the god’s court—entangling with a haunted heir, plagued by fated dreams of her arrival, who will stop at nothing to unearth her purpose.

#questpit #w #f #r #a

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Ty! 🥰

lol me too!!

Graphic for a pitch slide, showing a planet, moon with sun peeking out behind moon and starship. Text reads: "An agents guide to SUNDERED GALAXY" "A Space Opera Novel and the first of a series, currently standing at 146K words."

On a background of a half shrouded red planet, a block of text reading: THE PITCH Last week Anthony was just like like every other average guy. Now he's on a stolen alien warship with a small crew of alien prison escapees, an extra set of skin keeping him alive, and a mysterious and powerful fleet of unknown adversaries after him. All he wants is to just go home.

On top of a background showing a red nebula: Comp titles listed as NOPHEK GLOSS X FARSCAPE, with title images for each one. Tropes list, detailing: •Fish out of water MC •Space Odyssey •Befriending the AI Android •Diverse aliens, locations, FTL travel and space battles •A galaxy divided by war.

On top of a background of a starry night sky: An excerpt reading: "Dozens of such empires die every century, often in the same manner as this. There are thousands of empires, unions, alliances, dominions or nations, or whatever variant of galactic government you'd care to mention, and they all shift and change and die. New ones rise up all the time. They are all like trees in a rain forest, quick to sprout and grow given the right circumstances, quick to fall and die and their corpse scavenged by everything around them." - Kenam Suldaray, former operative of the confederacy of Vigilant Systems, on the nature of the galaxy.

#Questpit! I present to you, for your consideration (and with improved graphics) SUNDERED GALAXY!
#W
#A
#SF

There is a green background with lines of code running down it. A man's head and shoulders are in silhouette against the lines of code. The text is in courier font and all capitalised. It reads: An agent's guide to: Out of Time By Gert Ramm Espionage/time travel thriller Images from Pixabay.

There is a green background with lines of code running down it. A man's head and shoulders are in silhouette against the lines of code. The text is in courier font and all capitalised. To the left of the man's head it reads: 1972: an MI5 officer discovers a secret Cold War agenda - to develop time travel technology. After a failed British experiment creates an unstable time vortex, he must find a way to disable it, before it's weaponised for temporal warfare. That's easier said than done though, when the government blames him for the disaster, and ruthless hunters are closing in. The text to the right of the man's head reads: Pitch: Slow Horses... With Time Travel In the bottom right-hand corner is the image of an SLR camera lens. Images from Pixabay.

There is a green background with lines of code running down it. A man's head and shoulders are in silhouette against the lines of code. The text is all capitalised and in courier font. The text to the left of the man's head reads: Comps: Slough House Series (Mick Herron) Here and Now and Then (Mike Chen) Dark Matter (Blake Crouch) The Anubis Gates (Tim Powers) The text to the right of the man's head reads: TV Comps: The Ipress File Day of the Jackal Life on Mars Callan In the bottom right-hand corner is an image of a semi-automatic pistol with seven rounds of ammunition beside it. Images from Pixabay.

Green background with lines of code down it. A man's head and shoulders in silhouette. Text reads: Themes: Loyalty Betrayal Sacrifice Balance of Power Trust Friede couldn't be in his head. Not now. Distractions led to mistakes. A mistake tonight would be disastrous. Edmund Fletcher forced himself to focus as he padded silently through the disused sewer. His penlight illuminated a narrow arched tunnel, though he'd used this subterranean labyrinth so often he could have navigated it in darkness. He shivered, quickening his pace; it was always cold so far below ground, heavy snow in the streets above had lowered the temperature further. He was directly below the wall now. A hundred feet ahead was Soviet territory. While he held Russian and GDR security in the highest esteem, after three years in the business it wasn’t hard to stay ahead of them. He took nothing for granted though; complacency was a killer. Twelve 35mm frames run along the bottom of the page.

Slow Horses ➕️➕️➕️
Time travel's brutal for an MI5 agent on the run from his government. They almost blew up 1972; he got the blame. Now there's a temporal vortex to close, if the hunters don't kill him first, and a Russian spy from 1997 is running interference.

#Q #A #T #SF #QuestPit #agentguide 🦋

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi x The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

🦑Seaforth | Fantasy | 110,000 words

A curse. An uprising. A chance at victory.
And through it all, two warring women hiding life-changing secrets.

#QuestPit #Q #A #F

moodboard with dark blue-gray images of jellyfish, boys kissing, hands reachign in the water, storm clouds, and moody cities. overlaying text reads: You're shivering, and your lips are blue... So kiss them, and they won't be blue anymore. Jellyfish Boy by R. A. Betzer

A Cloud Merman's Guide to Becoming Human:
S̶t̶e̶p̶ ̶1̶:̶ ̶S̶t̶e̶a̶l̶ ̶a̶ ̶h̶e̶a̶r̶t̶
Step 1.2: Grow a heart with human's help
Step 2: Achieve happiness

Steps unclear. Now I’m ripping out any heart I can find.

SIMON SNOW x THE LITTLE MERMAID 🪼 🩵
#QuestPit #Q #NA #UF #R

3 by 3 grid of pictures: a woman in a forest with a giant wolf; a silhouette of a woman; silhouette of a couple kissing; a woman reaching out to light; two hands touching; a woman surrounded by a phoenix; art of a winged person saving someone falling; silhouette of couple kissing in the sun; a crown and dagger

Crown of Amethysts Na Romantic Fantasy 99,000 words Shadow and Bone meets A Court of Thorns and Roses Pitch: When Keira's sister is taken by a shapeshifter, her fate intertwines with the God of Light as she faces the last remaining gods, vicious monsters of land and sea, and her own dark powers to save her. But the enemy could be anyone, and his price for her sister will have her question the cost of love and duty. Comp titles: a fate inked in blood and spark of the everflame. Tropes and themes: love vs duty, found family, vengeance and betrayal, Forbidden and slow-burn romance, forced proximity, dark secrets and hidden truths, half the Gods are dead, and gods. Goddesses, mortals, and more.

When Keira's sister is taken, her fate intertwines with the God of Light as she faces the last remaining gods, vicious monsters of land & sea, & her own dark powers to find a shapeshifter who could be anyone & whose price for her sister will have her choose b/w love & duty
✨️ #Questpit #RF #F #Q #A 🌗

DAISY JONES ELEANOR OLIPHANT LADY PARTS
Director Skye (autism) prefers remaining behind the camera but when she reunites a squabbling '80s all-women band for a documentary to save her career, she must decide how to proceed when her personal story ends up before the lens
#Q #A #WF #UP #questpit

When Moira is thrust into running her family's merchant business, she takes the role willingly, ready for adventure. Romance blooms while the looming war forces her to choose from the familiar or leading a revolution against the crown. #QuestPit

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN x Witch Trials x ONE PIECE

Taylor is the most wanted secret in the galaxy: a human w/ magic. To escape the elves' forest homeworld, she'll overcome mutual hatred to help a sexy elvish spy retrieve stolen magical tech—and discover how it ties to an arcane relic he doesn't know she stole. #questpit #q #sff #amquerying

That Time I Got Drunk & Saved A Demon x Six of Crows

🌿fake relationship

💎race against a clock

🌿everyone is lying. E v e r y o n e.

💎be queer, do crimes

🌿How hard could a heist really be? Boys do it.

#QuestPit #W #RF #AG