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Three friends descend into an abandoned Cornish mine. Two return. Police don’t believe Alyx’s story of their folkloric encounter — those who do belong to a covert force. Strong-arming her way into their ranks leads to answers, but they come at a cost, and loyalty can be fatal. #QuestPit #Q #A #SFF

Gah nothing more terrifying than hitting "upload" into QT and just crossing your fingers you uploaded the right thing and that it's not randomly a picture of your mom or something...

Absolutely loved taking part in my first ever #QuestPit yesterday. 😄 Loved seeing the huge amounts of creativity in so many pitches. 🙌🏼 Thank you all for your support, I was not expecting so many lovely comments. 🥹

SCHITT'S CREEK X SOMETHING WILD & WONDERFUL x THE GUNCLE... in a rural Texas town... about a widower who falls for his mysterious roommate... #QuestPit #Q #R #A SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN (73K, adult LGBTQ+ fiction) is: 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ queer joy 👀 they were roommates 💖 slow burn 🌙 chaotic chosen family ✨ so many y'alls

IF WE'RE STILL SINGLE 👫Two childhood best friends 💍One marriage pact 📝Seven things all couples should do before they say I do ♾️A million things that could go wrong 💘One chance to end their story the right way #QuestPit #A #R #Querying 8/1

You are cordially invited to REALM OF HEARTS for high tea. Your presence is not optional. #literaryagents you are invited to enjoy my revamped Wonderland reimagining. Fat, queer, anxious af and badass Alice is bringing the 🔥 to your inbox #QuestPit #Q #R #F #RF #A #NA #queer

GHOSTED — Moving back to his childhood home after his abusive father's sudden death, Sebastian West expects the nightmares. What he doesn't expect are the dark, bloody visions of his old 'imaginary friend' haunting his waking hours. Are they hallucinations? Or something worse? #QuestPit #W #A #DR

Carnival Row × Arcane. A secretly educated inventor must rescue her sister and expose the lie at the heart of a kingdom before a prince silences her forever. ⚙️ Inventor heroine ❤️ Friends-to-lovers ✨ Women aren't supposed to wield magic... until one does. #Q #YA #F #QuestPit

THE LOST STORY X THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA 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. #QuestPit #Q #A #F

BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN x HIGHER MAGIC DO NO HARM has… 🎩Retro-Victorian dark academia 🩸Murder and intrigue 👨‍🎓Plus-size PhD student MMC 👩🏽‍🎓Disabled punk activist FMC 🩺Medicine & magic 🧬Fictional magic, real science 🧑‍🔬Save the enby, save the world #Questpit #Q #A #F #SFF

OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA x AMATKA The last city of the universe survives by keeping its people from feeling. When an engineer discovers emotion and forbidden love beyond the city’s walls, she must decide how much of her world she’s willing to destroy to become herself. #QuestPit #A #LF #S #U

Local Heavens X Fahrenheit 451 🖥️ Chronic Illness Rep 🎙️ Mind Control ❤️‍🔥 Rivals to Lovers 💖 Sapphic Romance 🎚️ Art as Resistance #questpit #A #SF #D #W

In THE WISHES WE MADE, Aurora and Jameson ignore the most basic law of nature. A storm is unpredictable and you have no control over the destruction it leaves in its wake. #Questpit #Q #A #PR #R 🔥enemies-to-lovers-and-back-again ✨magic ☘️Irish folklore ❤️Strong female friendships 🤫Secrets & lies

A GUIDE FOR GHOST IN THE CLIFFS!! * ˒˒ ⸝⸝　 for lovers of: 🫆 small town disappearances 🫆 psychological unraveling 🫆 BIPOC main characters 🫆 Sadie, The Reappearance of Rachel Price, Where Sleeping Girls Lie, & Yellowjackets #questpit #q #ya #h #t #my

WE WERE ALL DEFECTS - YA Dystopian Thriller - 77k words The bubblegum-pink tiles of Ruinview will swallow anyone who loses control, but emotions are Alex's only weapon when she has seventy-two hours to stop her mother's execution and save the boy she loves. #QuestPit #Q #YA

In post-WWIII Saint Petersburg, Polina sells illegal dreams to save her brothers. Leo, an American prisoner, hunts the dreamer in exchange for his wife’s freedom. But when dreams reveal their erased love story, they discover that love never comes without a sacrifice. #QuestPit #A #W #RF #dystopia

What happens when the life you escaped becomes the only thing that can make you feel whole again? 🎤 Pop-punk nostalgia 🖤 Found family 🔥 Slow-burn second chance 🥐 Former frontman turned bakery owner 🎸 Band secrets and old wounds #QuestPit #W #A #U #R

ECHOES OF YOU | 62K YA Speculative Romance A boy dies. His spirit wakes up in someone else’s body. And the girl who loved him has no idea she’s falling for him twice. #Q #YA #S #RF #R @questpit.bsky.social #questpit

NAUSICAÄ X FF7 Just like heroes in the old tales, Hana knows the gods have given her magic to restore the dying world, and she can handle the quest! Even if her power is hurting her, demons are chasing her, and the previous chosen one thinks she was a mystical mistake. #Questpit #A #F #Q

LEGENDS AND LATTES X MIDNIGHT DINER X BLADE RUNNER ☕️ Karmic coffee. Illegal tomatoes. And an ex who still looks way too good in leather. Welcome to the underground café where redemption comes with oat milk foam. #Questpit #AG #OS #A #SF #D (cozy cyberpunk—you read that right!)

BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN x NINTH HOUSE Dark academia, magical medicine and a murder most foul. DO NO HARM is querying now. #Questpit #Q #A #F #SFF

SUPERNATURAL x CRITICAL ROLE x THE WITCHER x CONSTANTINE, with... -A post-apocalyptic 1980s setting 🎶 -An exiled human paladin with a shameful past ⚔️ -A chaotic half-elf rockstar 🎸 -Queer power ballads to save the world 🏳️‍🌈 SONGBOOK FOR THE APOCALYPSE, queer romantic fantasy WIP #QuestPit #W #F #A

My MC got a teeeeext! SCREAM QUEENS X TELL ME LIES The vibes: 🤎A Black MC navigating a PWI 👀Messy girlhood, juicy secrets 💖Campus thriller set in an elite sorority 🔪A murder tied to a dark hazing scandal 💋A dash of romance...but can her love interest be trusted? #Questpit #Q #A #MY #T

Hey #questpit! Officially #querying my #a #fantasy #darkacademia

✨AMITY COVE 🎠 🎡Haunted Carnival 🌊Abandoned Wharf 📿Missing Sister 🎭Suspicious Friends 🎩Family Secrets 🎇Enemy Love Interest 🖤Romance and Horror💀 Elements (original artwork by me) #QuestPit #Q #YA #MY #T #R #H

TRINITY Institutional darkness of Ninth House X folk horror of The Ritual X secretive worldbuilding of Bone Season. 🛡️ Truth vs secrecy 🗡️ Duty vs loyalty 🧬 Science vs folklore ❤️‍🩹 Grief vs acceptance Adult contemporary fantasy with thriller pacing and a folk horror undercurrent. #QuestPit #Q #A #SFF

After some manuscript edits (and an extra 4,000 words), I have a fresh agent’s guide for As Above in honor of #QuestPit DIAVOLA X RED RABBIT GHOST X IT FOLLOWS 🌲 Isolated Midwestern Gothic 👹 Doppelgängers ⛏️ Bleeding mines 🌀 Folklore ❣️ Romance #Q #A #H

🌊 ALL THE SEAS AND SHADOWS 🌊 A privileged girl uncovers the secrets behind a magical smuggling ring in exchange for help escaping an enforced engagement. 🤍 Young Adult Fantasy 🤍 Folklore-faithful Irish Lore 🤍 Sapphic Longing 🤍 Found Family #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #amquerying

BENEATH THE WAYWARD TIDES 80k Paranormal Thrillermance Fool's Gold (2008) meets Tidelands (2018) A mermaid and an archeologist team up to find a treasure, but she's harboring a terrible secret: she will die if she doesn't kill him first. #Questpit #W #A #F #PR #T

Britain’s folklore is only the cover story. TRINITY: Adult contemporary fantasy with thriller pacing and a folk horror undercurrent. Ninth House X The Ritual X Bone Season. 🛡️ Secret Organisation 🗡️ Folkloric Creatures 🧬 Nature Remembers 🛡️ Found Family 🗡️ Identity 🧬 Grief #QuestPit #Q #A #SFF

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST X CASTLE AND THE CLOISTER //Find the truth, even it if kills you.// 💀 Seven deadly sins x monsters 🗡️ Platonic best friends 🩸Chronic illness rep 🥀 Corruption vs. truth 🖤 Complicated families #Questpit #w #ya #f

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI 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 #AG

She has built her career standing up for women and girls. Then a teenage girl is harmed - and the boy accused is her son. BLAME is a 78k multi-POV upmarket novel about consent, masculinity, accountability and parental blind spots. THE WHISPERS x ADOLESCENCE #Q #A #QuestPit

Excited to pitch HIDDEN MONSTERS, my 99k psychological thriller about a desperate actress trapped aboard a billionaire's staged submarine adventure where every act of violence could be part of the script... or terrifyingly real 🌊🤿 #agentguide #amquerying #QuestPit #Q #T #RF #A

BRIDGERTON X PRACTICAL MAGIC with the mystery and amateur sleuth vibes of ENOLA HOLMES When witches start disappearing from the Ton, Seraphina must unravel the mystery before she looses her reputation, her magical tea parlour and her missing best friend Primrose, forever. #SFF #W #MY #A #questpit

♣️♦️ PHANTASMA X SINNERS ♥️♠️ This New Adult Fantasy Features: 🃏 Multiple POVs 🎲 A Bisexual Love Triangle 🃏 Deadly Bargains 🎲 Sinful Behavior 🃏 Poisons & Playing Cards 🎲 Black Social Commentary #QuestPit #NA #F #BVM #POC

SILVER ELITE x TELL ME AN ENDING MEMORY DEVOURS HER 96k Adult Romantic Dystopian SF 🚫 Emotion as error 👾 The haunting is digital 🧪 Complicit Protagonist 🧨 Creeping dread to visceral action 🖤 Love from complicit guilt RevPit Shortlist PosterPitAward 2nd #QuestPit #A #Q #SF #SFF #S #AgentsGuide

FLEABAG X MARGO’S GOT MONEY TROUBLES A librarian moonlights as a camgirl, but when someone from her past finds her and threatens to expose her, she’s at risk of more than being known; she could be labeled like the banned books kept from the shelves. Disclaimer: slut. #QuestPit #Q #A #LF #R

WOLF WORM x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN THE TREES HAVE TEETH - An Appalachian Folkhorror "Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her." 🌲 Nature and rot 💀 Death as an entity 🍄 Botanical Horror ⛰️ Set in the mountains 🐇 Eerie folklore 🍂 Isolated setting #QuestPit #A #H #W

I’m taking part in my first ever #questpit event tomorrow! Been prepping all day. Looking forward to seeing everyone’s pitches. Any tips for a newbie? 😊