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Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️ @chantaldanieli.bsky.social · Jul 24
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
My Sweet Unbecoming A forbidden gothic romance Coming to agent inboxes September 2026 Comps & Pitch The Phantom of the Opera Jane Eyre Bridgerton — The Viscount Who Loved Me When a scandal exiles her to Lucerne, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she’s forbidden to love—Théodore Chair-Beaumont, the brooding aristocrat sworn to matrimony with another. But beneath his restraint lies a wound that mirrors her own. And falling for him could not only repeat the tragedy that broke him before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all. Tropes Forbidden Romance High Society Match Making European Setting Slow Burn Love VS Duty Black Swan-esque Awakening Masquerade Ball 2000’s Setting Obsessive yearning Secret Lake Meetings
chantaldanieli.bsky.social
so excited for #questpit!! i’ll be pitching MSU officially as a story i’m querying <33 also, i won’t make a list this time around since i try to support as many authors as i can either way! let’s goooo
October 30, 2026 at 9:21 AM
chantaldanieli.bsky.social
i sent out my first query!! MSU is officially in the trenches. 🖤🕯️
chantaldanieli.bsky.social Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️ @chantaldanieli.bsky.social · Jul 24
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
My Sweet Unbecoming A forbidden gothic romance Coming to agent inboxes September 2026 Comps & Pitch The Phantom of the Opera Jane Eyre Bridgerton — The Viscount Who Loved Me When a scandal exiles her to Lucerne, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she’s forbidden to love—Théodore Chair-Beaumont, the brooding aristocrat sworn to matrimony with another. But beneath his restraint lies a wound that mirrors her own. And falling for him could not only repeat the tragedy that broke him before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all. Tropes Forbidden Romance High Society Match Making European Setting Slow Burn Love VS Duty Black Swan-esque Awakening Masquerade Ball 2000’s Setting Obsessive yearning Secret Lake Meetings
September 1, 2026 at 1:11 PM
chantaldanieli.bsky.social
well… it’s done 🖤
MSU is officially query ready.
theo and olivia will be introduced to agents in 9 days… 😭
August 23, 2026 at 1:44 AM
chantaldanieli.bsky.social
Some of my favorite lines from My Sweet Unbecoming, a forbidden gothic romance I’m querying this upcoming September. 🖤🕯️
July 29, 2026 at 6:30 PM
chantaldanieli.bsky.social
Love love love!!!! 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽
July 25, 2026 at 9:23 PM
chantaldanieli.bsky.social
Thank you so much!! 🥹
July 25, 2026 at 9:22 PM
chantaldanieli.bsky.social
Thank you that means the world 🥹🫶🏽
July 25, 2026 at 9:22 PM
chantaldanieli.bsky.social
Dare I say my mmc surpasses the viscount 🧎🏽‍♂️‍➡️
July 25, 2026 at 9:21 PM
chantaldanieli.bsky.social
YAYAY 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽
July 25, 2026 at 9:21 PM
chantaldanieli.bsky.social
You’re the sweetest soul!!! 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽
July 25, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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celticxpanda.bsky.social
THE SWORD IN THE TREE project in development ‼️

Running away from a forced marriage, Branwen accidentally reveals herself to be the Hero King Reborn in a world that has long since moved on without one.

🏰 Arthuriana Fantasy of Manners
🔍 Court Intrigue
💋 Multiple Love Interests

#QuestPit #A #WIP #RF
Project: The Sword in the Tree; romantasy/fantasy of manners in development the heroine: branwen, hero king reborn; art by Scarchou tropes and themes: regency/victorian inspired setting, commoner knight vs duke of the north love interests, scheming and political strife inspiration: lord of the rings, the sword in the stone, villainess and female-led reincarnator manhwa
July 24, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Reposted by Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️
tarynchristeen.bsky.social
FIRST LOOK at project Stupid Cupid

🪽a dark Psyche + Cupid retelling
🪽Perilous games (mafia🤝Among Us)
🪽She's hungry and he's the only available "food" source
🪽fantasy with dystopian vibes
#A #F #RF #SFF #W #questpit
July 24, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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bookishcarly.bsky.social
I’m excited to join questpit with Tower of Tangled Lies, with my dark fantasy ‘Rapunzel’ retelling with a slow burn romance and strong chronic illness representation.

Blood& Ash x Gild x Tangled

#questpit #q #a #f #df
July 24, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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stpolishook.bsky.social
JEWISH BLUEBEARD + FEMINIST TWIST

Promised to a witch before her birth, Talia must now spend a year with the woman to pay off her parent's debt. But with demons threatening to steal her away, The "witch" might just be Talia's best hope at keeping her head. #Questpit #W #YA #F
Mood board with dark atmospheric vibe. Demon eyes poke through behind an image of a woman & girl praying over Shabbat candles. Yiddish and hebrew run across the images.
July 24, 2026 at 6:16 PM
chantaldanieli.bsky.social
Wow i love this!!!
July 24, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Reposted by Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️
onismick.bsky.social
Dexter x MEXICAN GOTHIC x HAZELTHORN.

A New England Gothic eco-horror with a riveting mystery.

"They said if you were seen by the man with no eyes, there was no point in running."

#questpit #W #A #S #MY #H #gothic
July 24, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Reposted by Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️
beatricelebrun.bsky.social
ALICE IN WONDERLAND × BACKROOMS × HOUSE OF LEAVES

The scariest part of Wonderland is forgetting you ever wanted to leave.

👁️ Queer psychological horror
👁️ Obsession
👁️ Distorted Reality
👁️ Liminal horror
👁️ Alice in Wonderland retelling

GLOWROT IS AVAILABLE NOW!

#QuestPit #P #A #H
Cover of the book Glowrot by Beatrice Lebrun. Featuring a creepy collage of a person with bunny ears, goo coming out of their eyes and mouth and hands trying to reach a falling figure
July 24, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Reposted by Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️
hlcauthor.bsky.social
Meet the Protagonist: Alyx Delaney. 🌊🔥

📍 St Ives, Cornwall
🔦 Urban explorer
🧗 Terrible at giving up
🫡 Even worse at following orders
🗡️ Curiosity drives her
🩸 Loyalty may destroy her

TRINITY: An adult contemporary fantasy with thriller pacing and a folk horror undercurrent.

#QuestPit #Q #A #SFF
A mist-strewn Lake District landscape background. Centred is the title: TRINITY. Beneath, the subtitle: Contemporary Fantasy | 99,000 words. A misty Lake District backdrop. In the foreground on the left are four images aligned vertically: a Cornish coastal view with a blue sea and a rich coastline. A silhouette of a woman exploring an urban exploration-style tunnel. A mist-bathed mansion style building, framed by a silhouetted tree. Lastly, a pen placed diagonally across filled notebook pages. On the right, a white box with text: DETAILS. TRINITY: An adult contemporary fantasy with thriller pacing and a folk horror undercurrent. 99,000 words. Currently: Querying. THEMES. • Grief * Identity * Found family * Inherited power * Truth vs narrative * The cost of loyalty * Hope after trauma * Nature remembers * Institutional corruption The same misty Lake District backdrop. On the left, four vertically stacked images: a thin tunnel inside of a Cornish mine with bright blue copper staining. A Land Rover Defender with its fog lights blearing, making its way through a misty forest. A regal Lake District stone mansion, cropped to show the bay windows. An abandoned factory, empty, but bathed in an eerie green light. On the right, a white box featuring the following pitch text: BRITAIN'S FOLKLORE IS ONLY THE COVER STORY. When an urban exploration ends with her closest friend being dragged into the darkness by a creature of local myth, Alyx Delaney can't save him. Worse, nobody believes what she saw. Refusing to accept Conor is gone, Alyx claws for evidence and uncovers Trinity: a covert, science-forward organisation that has quietly shaped Britain's response to the horrors hidden within its folklore. Grief drives Alyx to unearth hidden truths that the powerful at Trinity kept buried for decades. A misty Lake District background. In the foreground, three book covers: Adam Nevill’s The Ritual, Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House and Samantha Shannon’s The Bone Season. Beneath, the title: SHELVED WITH.
July 24, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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itsbysierra.bsky.social
LORD OF THE FLIES × THE DROUGHT × The Death of Vivek Oji

A Lagos-set reimagining of J.G. Ballard's The Drought, combining the social collapse of Lord of the Flies with the haunting atmosphere of The Death of Vivek Oji.

Title: BURN

#W #LF #S #Questpit
July 24, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Reposted by Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️
tarynchristeen.bsky.social
THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH X DAUGHTER OF NO WORLDS X ONE DARK WINDOW

An #agentsguide for my completed 90,000 word NA/A, dark, gothic fantasy PARALYSIS
#questpit #Q#A #F #DF
July 24, 2026 at 6:36 PM
chantaldanieli.bsky.social
impatiently waiting for an agent to snatch this up so i can finally get my physical copy of this wonderful book 🫶🏽😭
July 24, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Reposted by Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️
taelyngray.bsky.social
BRIDGERTON x AGNES AUBERT'S
MYSTICAL CAT SHELTER with a magical butterfly twist

🦋 magical butterfly rescue
🤭 hate to love
✨ fake courtship
🤍 #ownvoices scoliosis rep
📰 The Press make or break reputations
🫦 banter starts in CH 1

#questpit #Q#A #F
July 24, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Reposted by Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️
alboyd.bsky.social
SERIAL DATING | Adult Horror Rom-Com

Inverted Tropes:
🛏️Too Many Beds (it's a bunk bed situation)
❤️Co-workers to Friends to Lovers (No enemies here)
☠️Neither FMC or MMC are Serial K!llers (but everyone else is)
☀️Perfect, Sunny Weather (no dark & stormy nights)

#QuestPit #W #A #H #R
Picture of a forest of trees. Text: agent guide, adult horror rom-com, projected 70K, current 40K, Serial Dating, by Ally Boyd Picture of rock half in a lake, half on the sand. Text: The Pitch, While vacationing at a remote lakeside cabin, the daughter from a dynasty of eccentric k!llers struggles to shield her new boyfriend from her family’s gruesome legacy, but the sunny lakeside retreat turns deadly when a k!ller from her past turns the camp grounds into hunting grounds. Picture of lake and trees reflecting in it. Text: the comps, Lights Out by Navessa Allen, Ready or Not (2019), Dating & Dismemberment by A L Brody, The Book of Knives by Lise Haines Picture of trees. Text: The Opening. I’m pretty sure the guy I matched with is a serial k!ller. I knew it the moment he picked me up. His hair is combed too straight, his blue button down shirt is overly starched, his khakis pressed with military precision, and his nails neatly trimmed to the quick. I can almost hear my best friend, Kayla’s voice in my head, ‘It’s find Maddie. He’s a nice guy. Why are you always trying to find the faults?’ It’s not like I’m doing it on purpose, it’s just that I have a type. And I really, really want to get away from my normal type and find a nice guy. “You look beautiful,” he says as he presents me with a bouquet of flowers. White lillies. The flower of death.
July 24, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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alicel565.bsky.social
LOVELY RUNNER X KING OF GLUTTONY
If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen— except the only way Ava can save her family name is to partner with her hot chef ex-boyfriend, and if she isn't able to guard her heart, she might be getting burned by him— again.
Querying soon👩🏻‍🍳
#Questpit #A #Q #R
A 9x9 moodboard for Dinner Crush. The center is a quote from Last Kiss by Taylor Swift. The bottom left and top right corners are high-end food pictures. The top left and bottom right are chefs preparing high-end dishes. The top middle is a couple almost kissing, and the bottom middle is a fancy restaurant. The left middle is a woman with her head in her hands. The middle right is a man with his head bowed. The first page of the agent guide for Dinner Crush, an adult billionaire romance by Alice Li Pitch: If you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen— except the only way Ava can save her family name is to partner with her hot chef ex-boyfriend, and if she isn’t able to guard her heart, she might be getting burned by him—again. @alicelauthor Tropes and comps: Moodboard for Dinner Crush The Spice and banter of King of Gluttony The yearning and angst of Lovely Runner Billionaire romance Second Chance hot chefs Slowburn yearning “It’s always been you” @alicelauthor Snippet: “How do I look?” Ethan asked, curiosity overtaking him even as suspicion settled in his gut. “Like she’s the moon, and you’re the sun,” the man said. “And you want every day to be a solar eclipse.” @alicelauthor
July 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM