Beth Train-Brown

PONYO meets MONONOKE #NA #YA fantasy about a deaf sea witch hunting the colonisers who imprisoned her. Plagued by the ghosts of lost women, she must discover what happened to them before she's recaptured 🧏‍♀️ #OwnVoice 💜 Aspec FMC 👨🏼‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏾 MLM slowburn ⚔️ Ride or die M&F besties #QueerPit #DF #F

GODKILLER meets GREATEST SHOWMAN #NA #YA fantasy: a deaf sea witch escapes imprisonment and flees on a circus ship. Shark wrestling pays her fare but revenge pays her debt 🧏‍♀️ #OwnVoice 🎪 Author raised in circus 💜 Aspec FMC 👨🏼‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏾 MLM side romance ⚔️ Ride or die M&F besties 💕 Found family #DVPit

WHAT IF TOPH FROM ATLA WAS DEAF, WRESTLED SHARKS, AND GOT TO KILL? 🧏‍♀️ #OwnVoice 💜 Aspec gender-queer FMC haunted by sea ghosts 👨🏼‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏾 MLM slowburn (recovery from abuse) 🦈 Positive shark rep 🏝️ Non-Western setting ⚔️ Ride or die F&M besties 💕 Found family of circus misfits #NA #YA #DF #F #DVPit #DVPit2026

PONYO meets MONONOKE #NA #YA fantasy about a deaf sea witch hunting the colonisers who imprisoned her. Plagued by the ghosts of lost women, she must discover what happened to them before she's recaptured 🧏‍♀️ #OwnVoice 💜 Aspec FMC 👨🏼‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏾 MLM slowburn ⚔️ Ride or die M&F besties #DVPit #DF #F

As Volume 4 of 'Leaf Journal' is out, we now get to shout about the articles! Including the astute '‘I Need To Learn – Am Learning’: How To Use Inexperience To Craft A Young Adult Voice' by @bethtrainbrown.bsky.social ojs.library.lancs.ac.uk/lj/article/v...

NOW TAKING SUBMISSIONS: The First Ten Pages Programme The BFS is offering BIPOC members anonymous feedback from industry professionals on works of speculative fiction: british-fantasy-society.vercel.app/welcome Have you prepared the first ten pages of your novel?!

💘 Pirate sapphics trapped on the same ship (unfortunate for everyone) 🏴‍☠️ Found family that would mutiny for each other 🔎 A murder mystery with too many motives and not enough trust ✨ Examining who gets labeled a monster and who gets forgiven #QueerPit #YA #F #DF #FR #H #M #AC

🐺🦇 Vamp4Werewolf T4T Slowburn ⚔️ Showdowns Galore 🖤 Monstrous Found Family All of this (and so much more) can be found in Night Creatures, a novel about a werewolf and a vampire making their way across the Wild West, all while evading a religious cult. #W #F #HF #HR #A #QueerPit

She’s the last necromancer, but with the rest of her bloodline dead, the veil between Death’s encroach is growing thin. She needs help. He’s a Paladin, chosen by his god to end necromancy and the ‘Unforgivable’ for good. And he might be her last hope—or her ultimate damnation. #F #RF #A #Queerpit

Trapped on a tyrant's spaceship, Calypso must avoid the attention of the god-king and her cult long enough to stop them. ⭐️OwnVoices ⭐️Enemies AND lovers ⭐️Toxic sapphics THE BRIGHTEST STAR IN THE SKY: a butch lesbian god needles a sheltered bisexual woman into trying to kill her #QueerPit #SF #F #A

Twelve years ago, Asteria became a god—almost. She just needs more power, and she's going to make it everyone's problem. Especially for hero's daughter Calypso, who, upon finding herself a prisoner on Asteria's spaceship, decides to stop a god. THE BRIGHTEST STAR IN THE SKY #QueerPit #SF #F #A

In a kingdom where magic steals body parts, emotions, and even memories, Elowen creates a soulless girl wearing her face to bargain with the Prince of the Underworld before the curse takes what remains of her family. Frankenstein X The Hunger Games #WIPPIT #NA #DF #F #G

BETWEEN FRACTURES OF LIGHT “When the Darkness ate the Sun, the Stars wept.” THE STARLESS SEA X HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE ☀️ romantic portal fantasy 🌿 nature-themed magic ✨ strange world 🖋️ interwoven folktales 🌸 mental health/neurodivergent rep 🌙 queer rep #QueerPit #A #F #R #RF

HEATED RIVALRY x NASCAR When rival drivers-turned-teammates Grayson and Corey are forced to road trip the season together, their biggest challenge becomes their secret romance and deciding what they want more: standing in the winner's circle alone or hand-in-hand. #QueerPit 🏁🏳️‍🌈

Rules For Ghosting x Alice Isn't Dead My Sister's Stolen Soul features: 💚 An aro/ace MC 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 A badass lesbian girlfriend 🏳️‍🌈 Actually, everybody is queer 🪽 A guardian angel willing to commit crimes 👀 The ability to see souls, ghosts, and more 🚗 An epic road trip #QueerPit #A #F #SN #CON

BEAUTY & THE BEAST x STAR TREK Roan, part of the last team of archaeologists sent to Earth, stumbles into an ancient bunker haunted by the synthetic mind of a trillionaire. She’s the only one who can fix his tech, but can she save him before Earth is swallowed by the Sun? #QueerPit #A #SF #FTA

ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART X DAUGHTER OF NO WORLDS X DARK WATER DAUGHTER A headstrong maid falls for the pirate Captain heading a mission for a mythical Stone, but when he plans to sacrifice her friend to evade his past, betraying him first may be the only way to save her friend. #QueerPit #NA #Q

GODKILLER meets GREATEST SHOWMAN #NA #YA fantasy: a deaf sea witch escapes imprisonment and flees on a circus ship. Shark wrestling pays her fare but revenge pays her debt 🧏‍♀️ #OwnVoice 🎪 Author raised in circus 💜 Aspec FMC 👨🏼‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏾 MLM side romance ⚔️ Ride or die M&F besties 💕 Found family #QueerPit

WHAT IF TOPH FROM ATLA WAS DEAF, WRESTLED SHARKS, AND GOT TO KILL? 🧏‍♀️ #OwnVoice 💜 Aspec gender-queer FMC haunted by sea ghosts 👨🏼‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏾 MLM slowburn (recovery from abuse) 🦈 Positive shark rep 🏝️ Non-Western setting ⚔️ Ride or die F&M besties 💕 Found family of circus misfits #NA #YA #DF #F fantasy #QueerPit

Sam and Elliot hated each other when they went to summer camp as kids, but when they both go back as counselors after coming out as trans, they must confront their old rivalry while also dealing with the intense new attraction between them now that they've transitioned. #DVpit #NA #R #TV #LGBT

NEVER BEEN KISSED X THEY HATE EACH OTHER Sam and Elliot were archenemies when they went to summer camp as kids, but when they both go back as counselors after coming out as trans, their old rivalry is overshadowed by an intense new attraction between them now that they've transitioned. #DVpit #R #TV

THE PRIORY OF THE 🍊TREE X THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA The eldest of the 12 Dancing Princesses (also a lady knight) and the princess from The Wild Swans must use each other to break the curses in their families. Let’s just hope the Fae don’t get involved 🤞🏻 #queerpit #a #f

NEVER BEEN KISSED X THEY HATE EACH OTHER Sam and Elliot hated each other when they went to camp as kids, but when they both join the staff after coming out as trans, they must confront their old rivalry while dealing with an intense new attraction between them #QueerPit #NA #R

Nightmare Before Christmas X Holly Black ⚔️ Aroace Faerie warrior princess 🧹Wlw goth x pastel witches 🎃 Halloween magic 🏹 50 assassins Something tricksy this way comes... #QueerPit #YA #CozyFantasy #UF

✨️ A compilation #QueerPit 🧵 for all LYRIC FICTION pitches ✨️

FOR SHE IS WRATH x RUNNING CLOSE TO THE WIND Aboard a circus ship and on the run from the sea-god cult that imprisoned her, a sassy deaf witch must hunt for answers about her vanished predecessors before she can be made into the war-ending weapon she was conscripted to be #Queerpit #NA #YA #F #DF

☕️ THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Emma Bridge has done everything to make this plan work. She’s got the new name, the new town, the new life . . . She’s also got a nosy boy next door who’s stopping at nothing to get to know her. #QueerPit #YA #CON #R #M #AG #OS #LGBTQ #Dis

ROSE OF VERSAILLES ⚔️ LEGO BATMAN Old-fashioned swashbuckling. Contemporary sensibility. Men who trip and fall down. 15-year-old trans boy takes on Manhood Quest with 1,000 yards of ribbon and 2 brain cells. It's the dumbest historical you'll cry over all year! #QueerPit #HF #HA #AC #COA #YA / #A

A court musician will do anything it takes to reclaim her inheritance, until a runaway princess and political instability force her to choose between love and revenge. 🦚 Semi-occupied India-inspired 🎻 String instruments 💔 Lover to enemies 👑 Court politics 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Sapphic #QueerPit #F #A

Editors! On sub! When a modern-day attorney discovers she’s pregnant after a very out-of-character one-night stand w/a man who turns out to be the Greek god Apollo,she faces monsters,vengeful gods,& most terrifyingly,her feelings for Apollo to protect herself & her unborn child. #queerpit #fr #a

Letyf has no place on a world-saving quest. Lia has doomed more worlds than she’s saved. When an elf supremacist puts them on opposite sides of a war to enslave humans, the fate of thousands comes down to a rag-tag team of heroes from all cultures, racing against time. #QueerPit #A #EF #AC

Hello #QueerPit! Hope we are all doing well today! Please enjoy: FORGED IN THE AFTER #FR #F #R #A #MM #QUEERying I am so excited to share Donovan & Jerrik's story with you all!

SHANNARA x MAGICIANS An elf with anxiety goes on a quest to stop his elf-supremacist cousin—in his way? A chaotic, multiversal woman bound to the enemy. 🌌 Magical Multiverses ⚔️ Quests and Combat 🚪 Portal Fantasy Elements 🧠 Anxiety in a world of magic 💜 Ace rep #Queerpit #A #EF #AmQuerying

SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN (73k adult LGBTQ+ fiction) is... - the quirky small-town of Schitt's Creek + - the charm of Gilmore Girls... but 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ + - 🎶 as a love language + - grief grows with you + - your chosen people are everything + - falling in love under a starry summer sky #queerpit #A #lgbtq

THE HAPPILY-EVER-AFTER PACKAGE 💒 gay wedding planner 🤝🏻 gay weddings 🏍️ groom’s biker chick sister 👩🏼‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏼 femme X masc ☀️ grumpy X sunshine 🏳️‍🌈 enough queer characters for a kickball team “It took everything I had to be a bitch about everything. Yet you still made me fall for you.” #QueerPit #A #RC #R

SAPPHIC CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY 🧶🪄 Magical textile 😡➡️👩🏽‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏿 Enemies to lovers 🧙🏿‍♀️ A NB Willy Wonka of magical textile looking for an heir 🥼Autistic, STEM obsessed love interest 🏳️‍🌈😾Diabetic lesbian protagonist 🐏 Great ruminant heist #QueerPit #F #YA #R

THE LOST STORY X DARK RISE A fantasy novel aficionado discovers he’s the reincarnation of a revered Mage from another realm, and must uncover his past life memories to save his newfound home before it’s decimated by a horde of soul-devouring beasts. #queerpit #a #f

THE EVERWINTER KING Desperate to find his missing sun god, a former holy king returns home to compete in trials meant to bring the god back, and stop the onslaught of an endless winter. 🏳️‍🌈 Queer norm world ☀️ Light-based magic 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans love interest 👑 Hidden royalty #QueerPit #F #A #amquerying

MALACHI is a former holy king. AGAPIOS is the sun god who lives in his head. When Agapios vanishes, Mal returns to the home he abandoned to find him before his disappearance rids the world of its chance to break free from an endless winter. CH. 1 of THE EVERWINTER KING #QueerPit #A #F #amquerying

Raven & Bear The wholesome adventures of a young girl learning how to be a knight from her adoptive father, in a post-apocalyptic Wales. Youtube: www.youtube.com/@thebrambler... Wattpad: www.wattpad.com/user/TheBram... RoyalRoad: www.royalroad.com/fiction/1752... [Art by @nushdeco.bsky.social]

FOR SHE IS WRATH x RUNNING CLOSE TO THE WIND Aboard a circus ship and on the run from the sea-god cult that imprisoned her, a sassy deaf witch must hunt for answers about her vanished predecessors before she can be made into the war-ending weapon she was conscripted to be #Queerpit #NA #YA #F #DF

🚀 PERFECT FOR READERS WHO LOVE: 💫 anti-imperial sci-fi 👭 fierce sisters 🤖 sarcastic sidekicks ⚡ dangerous powers ❤️ found family A reluctant child soldier must decide whether to betray the empire that "blessed" her to save her sister. #QueerPit #MG #SF

IN THE NAME OF YOU - YA Romance ✝️ church camp counselors 😈 cool girl fmc ✝️ virgin mmc 😈 plot to overthrow the camp “I’ve never thought about sex more than at church camp, and it’s all thanks to Sloane Miller.” #QueerPit #YA #R #C #NowQuerying

UPROOTED x NAUSICAÄ 🪲 A naïve natural historian in desperate need of a guide through the cursed forest. 🌌 A non-binary rogue who will do anything to rescue their family. 👀 A plot to trap the rogue brings them together. ❤️ Their hearts will draw them closer. #QueerPit #A #F

🔥⛪HELL IS EMPTY (And All The Devils Are Here) is a graphic novel set shortly after a demonic-possession-based apocalypse. ⛪🔥 How can you live freely when the world sees you as a ticking time bomb? And how can you live with what you've done outside of your own control? #QueerPit #GN #SN #YA

THIRTEEN YEARS (71k, Adult Southern Gothic Folk Horror) The Devil kept his promise. Fame, fortune, sold-out crowds. Thirteen years later, the debt comes due. To save her soul, a musician must convince others to surrender theirs before the Hat Man comes to collect. #A #H #QueerPit

DON’T LET THE FOREST IN X YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES Portrait of a Fawn- YA Speculative Horror 🦌 #revpit 2026 Winner 🥀creeping dread horror 🥀bickering spirit hunters 🥀queer rep: bisexual fmc 🥀a haunted, forest-infested theater #Queerpit #YA #H #SPF

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet x The Expanse The galaxy is being destroyed & everyone's is pretending it's just another day. A crew of chaos, trauma & outcasts decide to save the galaxy that rejected them, because they found each other in it. But they won't admit it. #QueerPit #A #SF #H