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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

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

🖤🗡️ THE DARKEST LIGHT 🗡️🖤 ❤️‍🔥A king curses his imminent assassin with a forbidden love potion to stop her, but to wake its fatal power, he must pretend he's falling for her too--before exposure earns him execution and his softening heart threatens his plans. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #DF #RF

An #agentsguide to THE GREEN DOOR. ✨ Adult Upmarket Contemporary Romance 🌿 Literary sensibilities 📚 Book club crossover appeal 🌧️ Walthamstow East London ➡️ Brooklyn 🎨 Introverted illustrator × guarded fiction editor 🤍 Character-driven slow burn #QuestPit #A #U #R #LF

GLAZED & CONFUSED, 78,000-word contemporary rom-com For readers who love: 🖤 The Passion Project by London Sperry 🖤 Practice Makes Perfect by Sarah Adams 🖤 Hello Stranger by Katherine Center …and anyone who still rewatches Jessica Day & Nick Miller’s first kiss. 🫶🏻 #QuestPit #Q #A #R

STARLING HOUSE x ADDIE LARUE X MY COUSIN RACHEL A Gothic Fantasy Romance 📰 marriage of desperation 🏚️a secluded New Orleans estate 🥀mysterious, reclusive MMC 🕯️suspicious, determined FMC 🖤slow burn, forbidden obsession 🗝️a dark secret locked away #QuestPit #Q #A #F #H #R #Gothic #AmQuerying

#QuestPit #Q #A #U #LF Ten years after their daughter’s death destroyed their marriage, Nora returns to New York and finds the husband she left. To have any future together, they’ll have to survive the grief that tore them apart. Inspired by a single photograph. THE BOOK OF US | Adult Upmarket | 95K

POV: you're the worst witch in your family and you inherit your grandma's house, but it's haunted by her ghost AND she's dead-set on matchmaking you with the guy that broke your heart in high school. Ooops. SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH x Taylor Swift's MARJORIE #QuestPit #A #R #S #AG #W

LEGALLY BLONDE X TELL ME LIES After her best friend is murdered, the only Black member of an elite Southern sorority must break her silence and risk destroying her sisterhood to uncover who within her inner circle is the killer before an innocent Black student takes the fall. #Q #A #MY #T #Questpit

MEANS GIRLS X DO REVENGE What if male Regina George was voted out of the clique he practically created? He's not going to let some nobodies show him up in his last year of high school. No. He's going out with a bang. #W #POC #YA #Questpit #Satire PROJECT PARTY by Jesse O Benitez

If you like: 💍 New England weddings 💗 Stolen coffees 💍 Designing floral arrangements 💗 Italian greyhounds  💍 Messy women doing their best 💗 Champagne toasts 💍 Wealthy people behaving badly 💗 (Accidentally) shoving your rival in a pond… check out BROTHER OF THE BRIDE #Q #A #R #romcom #QuestPit

For a peek at my current WIP, VILLAGE WIP is a witchy, sapphic gothic horror where the Salem Witch Trials and a certain Greek myth merge. #QuestPit #W #Gothic #H #Horroromance

Sharing my novel LOVE IN THE HIMALAYAS (83,000 words) for #Questpit!!! 🏔️ A woman treks through the Himalayas to impress her crush, but is forced to team up with her rugged, mysterious tour guide instead. 🏔️ Slow-burn romance and yearning 🏔️ BOLLYWOOD vibes #Q #A #Questpit #R

Jack Frost (1998) x Sweet Home Alabama YULE ALWAYS FIND ME is a holiday paranormal romance with: 🤍second chance romance 💀murd.er 🤍fake dating ❄️frosty magic 👯‍♀️sister bonds 🐶a cute pet sidekick 🎄Christmas festivities 🔼love triangle Would you read it? Art by @mknzgmbn #questpit #wip #P #R #A

#questpit ! #w #u #wf #wlw THE SWINGING SKIRT ⛳️ After a flashing scandal, a disgraced LPGA champ and the disapproving coach she falls for ditch their staged media stunts to show fans what she stands for before her bad girl reputation eclipses her image as an elite athlete.

GLAZED & CONFUSED, 78,000-word contemporary rom-com When Milo gets dumped minutes before a couples pottery class, he does the only logical thing: shows up alone. Unfortunately for Briar, the overworked studio owner who swore off dating, their chemistry burns hotter than a kiln. #questpit #q #a #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

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

💖 SHE’S THE MAN x ICEBREAKER, BUT MAKE IT E-SPORTS 🎮 To join her dream esports team, Cam let everyone assume she's a guy. Now all she has to do is survive the captain, who's sure she's the weak link — without falling for him first. #Q #R #A #questpit #agentsguide #amquerying

THE SHADOWS (WIP in 3rd Draft) #W #F #A #QuestPit A middle-aged shopkeeper & retired magical con artist takes one last job to save store & family. She could end the corrupt power of the Skyborn mages. She could end up losing herself, her magic & all she holds dear. Talk about a midlife crisis.

My Darling, Dreadful Thing X The London Séance Society A fabled witch howled the Blackstone Curse and mired generations in madness, murder, and mayhem. Only a monster and an heir to an earldom may break the spell, but first they must find each other. #QuestPit #Q #Gothic #A #H #LGBT

☕️ 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. #QuestPit #YA #C #MY #R #AG #OS #LGBT #Dis #OV

ETERNALLY DEAD explores how an injured musician gets a second shot at stardom--only it's by joining an all-vampire rock band in the dangerous Vampire Realm. When blood shortages hit the Realm, she's forced to confront if living out her rockstar dream is worth dying for🩸🧛‍♂️🎸 #questpit #a #f #pr #rf #q

JANE EYRE x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 🕯️forbidden gothic romance 🕯️slow burn 🕯️yearning à la anthony bridgerton 🕯️black swan-esque awakening 🕯️2000's setting 🕯️devouring obsession but make it consensual 🕯️secret lake meetings — coming to agent inboxes September 2026 🍂 #questpit #W #A #NA #R

Hello 👋 fellow writers! I’ve been on such a journey this summer. I recently finished drafting my debut novel. So many feelings, but mostly excited! Kinda nervous about revisions. Any tips or advice for revisions? Thank you in advance! #writingcommuity #authors #debutnovel

Hello ✍️ Looking for a writing group/community focused on upmarket contemporary drama & deep slow-burn. My MS deals with identity & messy found families. Style relies on somatic writing & sharp dialogue over purple prose. Any suggestions? #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

Time is something we long for more of, but we never have enough of it, and it goes by faster each year. Stop, and enjoy the small moments because they become big ones later on in life.

What has happened in the last 2 years with the process of ticket purchasing? Why must it be a brutal blood bath every time? The joy of a tour is overshadowed by the dread of the Ticketmaster queue.

Life has been a cesspool of depression lately. I choose to seek light in a dark tunnel and change my mindset. Disposing negativity, and toxic situations. I choose happiness and growth.