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BONE KING'S BLUFF

After being accused of inviting the plague into a royal summit, a necromancer priest has to work with his only alibi, a cagey nobleman, to clear his name.

🦴 Death magic
🏰 Locked-castle mystery
🕯️ Medieval fantasy
🏹 Robin Hood trope
🏳️‍🌈 MM romance

#GhostPit #E #A #F #LGBT
October 30, 2026 at 11:33 AM
pjwrites.bsky.social
DRAGON AGE II x THE RAVEN SCHOLAR

A former holy king competes to restore his connection with the missing sun god and save the world from an endless winter, but the real trial is facing the home and people he once abandoned. #GhostPit #Q #A #F #LGBT
October 30, 2026 at 1:48 PM
funkybaby.bsky.social
My steamy and spooky dark academia fantasy with an insufferably dramatic necromancer, snarky prophecies appearing on the walls, snake venom rituals, and an Underworld descent

For fans of NINTH HOUSE, AN ACADEMY FOR LIARS, and DEATHBRINGER
🖤

#amquerying #agentguide #GhostPit 👻 #A #Q #F #RF
A mock cover/poster with a fantasy book pitch. Dark blue background, illustration of a bright pink snake tangled in chains. Title in acid green: SATURNINE. Genre: adult dark academia fantasy word count: 97,000 tropes: touch him and die, twisty dual pov, forced proximity, cults and rituals. Pitch: When her mentor turns up dead in a covered-up occult ritual, a fiercely loyal student makes a reckless bargain with a stranger claiming he can raise the dead for a single day to expose the truth before the corrupt university silences her for good Querying now
October 30, 2026 at 12:59 PM
authornatalierenee.bsky.social
Like Six of Crows, but age it up and make it gay.
✨SciFi Elements
✨Talking Adorable Spider
✨Poly Rep
✨Diverse Cast
✨Disability Rep
✨High Magic
#GhostPit #E #A #F #LGBT
The Shrouded Renegade An Agent Guide A 115K MultiPOV Dark Epic Fantasy Based On A Homebrew DnD Campaign Beneath the looming threat of a rebellion, a rag tag team is hired to investigate an upcoming election, instead they’re thrust into the fray of tyrants, oppressors, and an ancient secret cult determined to revive an exiled god. Princess Juni has one last chance to escape her impending arranged nuptials. To free herself, she must find a lost relic to restore her court’s full power, but her search lands her in the middle of another realm’s corrupt election. Determined not to see another oppressor take a throne, she assembles a group of unlikely allies to investigate. They learn that an underground cult is behind the tampering, and also harbor the relic she needs. As the election draws nearer, she must juggle the increasing instability of her magic, her cruel sister, and court politics, but things become dangerously complicated as she develops feelings and puts her fate in the hands of the realm's most notorious assassin, Death. Arathorn Vhours was cursed by his father to spend his life mercilessly killing at the whim of his family’s illegal empire as the assassin Death. His father’s interest in the election forces him into close proximity with a secret princess masquerading as a senator’s assistant, and feelings blossom the more they’re together. When his father demands Death assists a cult, he and Juni race to find a solution. With her, Death experiences emotions for the first time, pushing back against his curse and thrusting him into an impasse. He must break free from his father’s oppression, or risk losing the woman he’s falling for, along with what little humanity he has left. (text contd.) Death was in hell. A familiar buzzing in his coat pocket claimed his attention. Like the smell right before it rains, predictable dread twisted in his gut. He pressed his tongue to the roof of his mouth. Hard. He slid his bionic hand into the hidden jetted pocket, soft fabric gliding over the metal. After five years, Death still wasn’t used to it. The magic made it seamless—the same movement, control, and dexterity of his biological arm, but it wasn’t his. Lungs burning, he held his breath, staying perfectly still—careful not to let himself go down that memory. Never that memory. (Text Contd.)
October 30, 2026 at 4:08 AM
augustbewick.bsky.social
Having narrowly avoided being sacrificed as a child, Mallow lives meekly and hides his impious thoughts to survive. But when the gods murder his partner, he'll do anything to bring him back to life–even if it means joining a cult and helping its charming leader kill the gods.
#ghostpit #a #f #lgbt
A moodboard with autumn-inspired imagery.
October 30, 2026 at 3:09 PM
adriennereina.bsky.social
When the dead god's skeleton her country is built on begins to collapse, a former cult leader must emerge from hiding and ally with a man whose life she ruined to stop her former peers from mining the bones before her entire country sinks into the earth.

#ghostpit #q #a #f #rf #df
October 30, 2026 at 3:03 PM
catherinewinters.com
Nia Moredi just wants to look out for her little brother. Miss Laval needs to attend a governess-teacher meeting. Baarsin Dorvierre's being watched. Pickpocket Wren needs to recharge her misdirection charm. If only Nia could remember which of them she's supposed to be today. #GhostPit #YA #F #LGBT
A Pickpocket's Guide to High Society (And Higher Mathematics) YA Fantasy 80K words Catherine Winters dot com Against a subtly textured background of mathematical formulae and a hexagonal summoning grid feature a collection of intriguing objects: The outstretched hand of some mechanical clockwork automaton made of white porcelain. A purple and gold masquerade mask. A set of brass architect's tools: a compass, a protractor, calipers. A set of gears laid out, pulled from some kind of mechanism. The Pitch When she picks the wrong pocket, sixteen-year-old Nia unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had and catches the attention of people she doesn't want to know. Blackmailed into stealing a mysterious box, Nia accidentally awakens a living clockwork doll—that promptly runs away. Accused of betraying the blackmailers, Nia and her band of would-be thieves go on the run, pursued by magehunters, street gangs, and the secret police. When the doll returns to make a deal, Nia turns to the man whose lucky coin unlocked her magic, only to find him missing. Caught in a lie, Nia’s soon posing as an heiress, in the clutches of the man’s elderly landlady—who's intent on introducing the girl she knows as “Baarsin” to high society. As Nia finds herself disappearing into the role, she and her friends must race against time to track down the people behind it all: a secret society of mathematicians whose influence reaches all the way to the governor herself. Excerpt Caz tensed. “There’s someone following us,” she hissed. “I know,” Nia said. The man had been tailing them through the crowd for almost six blocks now. “He won’t be the only one.” She tugged Caz into the empty foyer of a boarding house and pulled out her misdirection charm. “Take my hand and stay quiet!” “That won’t work on me,” Caz protested. “No,” Nia said, willing herself to believe. “I can do this.” With all her strength, she pushed more of herself into the charm, the equation unfolding in her mind’s eye. She reached out, and as the world darkened around them, turned the doorknob, Caz clutching her arm. Nia pulled the taller girl close as the man pushed past them, failing to notice the door was already opening. On the busy sidewalk, Caz let out a breath. A small boy leaning against a nearby lamppost glanced in their direction, an uncertain expression on his young face. Caz cringed. “Sorry!” she mouthed. Comps & Tropes Includes the covers of four books: Never Ever After by Sue Lynn Tan Den of Liars by Jessica S. Olsen Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo's Beyond the Black Door by A.M. Strickland "Tropes" is loosely used here and includes: Stealing is magical (literally) Fish out of water (you probably guessed) Working for the wrong people Ancient magic (in over their heads) The MacGuffin is blackmailing us "Aren't you a little young to be a criminal?" Metaphorically dyslexic LI (she's also dyslexic) Creepy clockwork doll that complains all the time Good at magic, as long as she has a compass & protractor Grifter vs. con artist Sword lesbian (in training) Lying (a lot) Found family of scoundrels Ace protagonist (who hasn't had time to think about that) One big job and then we can retire (oh no, somehow everything went wrong) Let's break into a data centre! No chosen ones, no choosing ceremonies, just hard work and practice.
October 30, 2026 at 5:20 PM
elizabethtitus.bsky.social
🔥 WHAT GROWS from the ASHES?

#tarot, civilization #collapse, elemental shapeshifting, and witchiness in an odyssey
across a ravaged land-
the former US

Light After the Fall is available anywhere you order books
www.lightafterthefall.com

#ghostpit #YA #A #SP #F #PN #Spec #DS #SFF 🌊🌪️🌞#CliFi #LATF
a fan of tarot cards from Light After the Fall over a background of colorful flames and urban decay "Light After the Fall: an adventure in transcending the post-apocalypse" by Iza Krendl Titus a river winds through a colorful landscape toward a colorful dusk sky with hopeful star a tarot Fool figure holds a lantern on a cliff in foreground, symbolizing the tarot-themed journey in my debut novel #ClimateFiction #clifi #indigenousfuturism #hopepunk #Portland #PDX #booksky #writingcommunity #writesky #bookrelease #debutnovel #Collapse #ecofiction #hopecore #hope climate fiction indigenous futurism ecofiction post-apocalyptic post Collapse hopecore hope permaculture #witchsky witchy tarot #tarot #survival #adventure #tarotsky #FoolsJourney utopia #anarchistic mutual aid utopian #utopian community
October 30, 2026 at 4:59 PM
arachnereid.bsky.social
💫 Look for the light coming through the cracks of this crumbling empire 💫

🔥 WHAT GROWS from the ASHES?
🌱 HEAL the DYSTOPIA

past lives, civilization #collapse, elemental shapeshifting

Light After the Fall available anywhere you order books

#ghostpit #YA #A #SP #F #PN #Spec #DS #SFF 🌊🌪️🌞 #CliFi
"Light After the Fall: an adventure in transcending the post-apocalypse" by Iza Krendl Titus a river winds through a colorful landscape toward a colorful dusk sky with hopeful star a tarot Fool figure holds a lantern on a cliff in foreground, symbolizing the tarot-themed journey in my debut novel #ClimateFiction #clifi #indigenousfuturism #hopepunk #Portland #PDX #booksky #writingcommunity #writesky #bookrelease #debutnovel #Collapse #ecofiction #hopecore #hope climate fiction indigenous futurism ecofiction post-apocalyptic post Collapse hopecore hope permaculture #witchsky witchy tarot #tarot #survival #adventure #tarotsky #FoolsJourney utopia #anarchistic mutual aid utopian #utopian community #community #permaculture regenerative #regenerative sustainable climate change #climatechange #election decentralization survival #neotribalism #surviving #DIY #selfpublished self published #indiebooks
October 30, 2026 at 4:51 PM
cl-kos.bsky.social
INUYASHA x SHANNARA

When a child prodigy is sent to stop a war, an anxious elf with no magic joins the quest to protect him alongside the most unlikely ally—a jaded, world-hopping woman bound to the enemy.

Featuring:
🌌 Multiverses
🐾 Horrid monsters
🫂 Found family
💜 Ace Rep
#ghostpit #a #F #SFF #q
A moodboard featuring a dark purple sky, and a violet eye, labeled WEB TRAVELER, Adult Epic Sci-Fantasy, 127k, series potential. art of adventures, battle, and landscapes, with art of an elf-looking guy labeled Gentle Protagonist, an angry woman labeled Unhinged FMC, and a seige, labeled Pitched battles.
October 30, 2026 at 4:29 AM
kelseawolf-writes.bsky.social
Seven days. Three riddles. One ancient curse.

Framed for cursing her pirate turned cursebreaker family, Alice must follow a mysterious map, survive the monsters hunting her, and awaken the power that could save them all.
#ghostpit #ya #a #f #q
October 30, 2026 at 12:42 PM
kananiokelly.bsky.social
MOANA x SHADOW AND BONE

An #agentsguide to WHISPERS OF THE SEA, my #amquerying young adult fantasy.

Feat:
🌊 Hawaiian-inspired mythology
🌋 setting as a character
🌊 angry female mc

#Ghostpit #YA #F #Q #OwnVoices #AgentGuide
October 30, 2026 at 4:45 PM
brfontenotwrites.bsky.social
PROJECT VINE - Adult Horror Fantasy

The forest is waiting.

💀 Endless curse
🥀 Forbidden romance
🪾 Vengeful forest gods
🌒 Dark fairytale vibes
🌿 Botanical body horror

👻 #GhostPit #W #H #F #R
Project Vine Horror Fantasy The Forest is waiting Comps One Dark Window, Pans Labyrinth, What Moves the Dead, Princess Mononoke, Hazelthorn, A Botanical Daughter SNIPPET VINES TWISTED AROUND HIS RIBCAGE, SLITHERING BETWEEN THE SPACES LEFT HOLLOW AND CRACKING WHAT WASN'T. THE PRICK OF THORNS IN HIS VEINS, THE PAIN DEEP ENOUGH TO DRINK. THEY ALWAYS FOUND THEIR WAY OUT. Always Dark moodboard featuring forests, skulls, vines, and dark green vibes
October 30, 2026 at 1:02 PM
theeldervampire.bsky.social
A Grieving Witch, His Vengeful Hunter, and a Feud between Piety and Magic.
A Puritan cult and a dying forest are at the center of a decades long secret.
The Witch of Eden Hollow, a trans and queer later in life fantasy romance novel about love, loss, and healing.
#GhostPit #LGBT #P #A #F #R
October 30, 2026 at 2:14 PM
funkybaby.bsky.social
NINTH HOUSE x BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN

When her mentor turns up dead in a covered-up occult ritual, a fiercely loyal student bargains with a stranger claiming he can raise the dead for a single day to expose the truth before the corrupt university silences her for good

#GhostPit 👻 #A #Q #F #RF
a photograph of a dramatic marble sculpture face on a black background. A bold magenta title of the book: SATURNINE. Smaller text lists tropes and themes: cults, rituals, ghosts, Underworld descent. Enemies to lovers, dual POV. genre: Adult dark academia fantasy
October 30, 2026 at 5:27 AM
adregem.bsky.social
DEATH & THE DREAMER

NOSFERATU X ONE DARK WINDOW
An enchantress with the forbidden power to hijack daydreams must save the man she loves from a parasitic necromancer who uses the life magic of murdered men to animate his dead lover’s body.
#GhostPit #A #F #Q
Mood board for the dark fantasy novel Death & the Dreamer: the sky in a forest, a mossy angel statue, a distant castle, a vase of wilted flowers, a doorway to a castle, skulls in a necropolis, gravestones, a fireplace. Tropes: dark fantasy, morally gray protagonist, necromancy, forbidden magic, toxic love. Content warning: implied and off page non-graphic sexual abuse (male victims) and violence
October 30, 2026 at 4:00 AM
abookishchai.bsky.social
DON’T LET THE FOREST IN X YELLOWJACKETS
Portrait of a Fawn- YA Speculative Horror (72k) 🦌
#revpit 2026 Winner

🥀creeping dread horror
🥀bickering spirit hunters
🥀queer rep: bisexual fmc
🥀a haunted, forest-infested theater

#ghostpit #YA #👻#H #F #Q
An agents guide to Portrait of a Fawn. The background is a dark green image of a deer in a forest. The pitch and tropes are listed, along with the comp covers. There's also blue beetles, and a graphic of theater tickets
October 30, 2026 at 12:46 PM
audconnelly.bsky.social
#Ghostpit #A #SP #LGBT #F #Dogwood1
The cover of HOUND FATALE with the opening sentence: This story begins in autumn. It will end there too, in its own time... In a fairytale where all the worst villains are human, who's going to save the Big Bad Wolf? Owen has one chance to expose the richest, most powerful family in Swallowsaw and put an end to their tithing children to the Glade of Wolves, but first he has to win over two of the scariest blond people who have ever lived. Release date: 11/17/2026 comps include The Boondock Saints (film) and the books Mistress of Lies, The Last Sun, Dark Rise, and Melusine. “You must realize by now I have designs on you. I cannot possibly make my intentions any more obvious. If you go on willfully missing every sign, I will be forced to assume you are uninterested and too kind to say so. Which would seem uncharacteristic, given you are usually perfectly willing to say anything.” Owen looked at him not with incomprehension but absolute helplessness. Wesley took pity on him and leaned in to say, “Here’s what is going to happen. I am going to kiss you again. I am going to take my time with you. Nothing is going to stop me before I am through.”
October 30, 2026 at 4:56 PM
authoralexharvey.bsky.social
NAUSICÄA x PRIORY OF THE 🍊 TREE

🌳 Sapphic Epic Eco-Fantasy
🌳 Solarpunk ideology
🌳 Unlearning imperialism
🌳 Sky empire vs rebuilt surface world
🌳 Slow & sprawling storyline
🌳 Travelogue across multiple biomes
🌳 Kaiju magic system
🌳 Told in arcs

FREE serial available now!

#GhostPit #f #a #w #LGBT
A square graphic with a pale green background. It is titled "FROM UNDER A POISONED BOUGH: A sapphic epic eco-fantasy serial coming August 7th". Below, the image is split into two columns. The left column from top to bottom is as follows: a dark brown rectangle with a circle image of an overhead shot of a forest and a circle image of a stone corridor; "A woman out of time. A soldier longing for home. A peasant fighting for her life. A savior entombed in stone."; a shot of the elbow and rib/waist of a suit of armor with yellow detailing. The right column from top to bottom is as follows: a close-up of a tree stump in the woods with a whole mushroom colony growing from it; a suit of black armor beside a stone archway carrying an apple-sized object; a brown rectangle containing the story's color palette, which includes the same pale green as the background, a sage green, a stone grey, and a pale pink.
October 30, 2026 at 12:11 PM
sarahastolat.bsky.social
Coming to Kickstarter in 2027: THE LILY KNIGHT

🌱 Evil plants
⚔️ Arthurian knights
👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Sapphic rep
🏰 Camelot with cult vibes
✨ Dark magic

#GhostPit 👻 #A #LGBT #F #H
The Lily Knight All Elaine of Astolat wanted was to love and serve Sir Lancelot forever. But when she wakes upon a funeral barge with lilies blooming from her lips, she must pose as her missing brother to find who tried to kill her.
October 30, 2026 at 9:00 AM
cl-kos.bsky.social
Do you want to dress like you're on a quest forging an unshakable platonic bond? Go as Letyf and Lia this Halloween!

Letyf: buy legolas cosplay, add look of sadness & knife with dead friend's name on it
Lia: big ass sword, ripped pencil skirt, bloody button-down

#ghostpit #a #SFF #F #q
A halloween-themed image, with a drawing of a blonde elf, labeled "Letyf, Etherless Elf-Prince". Pointing to him are various arrows, stating: The Big Sads (pointing at his sad face); Legolas Cosplay from Spirit Halloween; Boring Human Sword, because he's not allowed to have an elf-sword; Really good hiking boots; Wedding Ring for Really Questionable Betrothal. A halloween-themed image, with a drawing of a dark-haired woman, labeled "Lia, 'immortal' demon". Pointing to her are various arrows, stating: bad Attitude; business casual (from old navy); blood stains (not from old navy); impractically large sword; boots, because being barefoot online is risky; gold chains that totally won't get in the way.
October 30, 2026 at 3:18 PM
celticxpanda.bsky.social
KING ARTHUR X SAILOR MOON

‘Once and Future King’ were words Morgan McArthur often heard in her childhood and academic career, but she never thought they might apply to her. Reincarnation pulls no punches, and neither so the armies of the Aesir when Mordred’s at the helm.

#Ghostpit #NA #F #LGBT
A poster mock up for She is King, featuring an image of a woman standing in the middle of the Scottish Highlands.
October 30, 2026 at 3:12 PM
drsamchung.bsky.social
ARTICULATE|85K words
BABEL X BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN

When a scholarship student discovers that magic is a learned language and not a birthright, she must expose the academy that taught her otherwise, even if it means losing everything.

#GhostPit #Q #A #F #DarkAcademia #WritingCommunity
October 30, 2026 at 11:38 AM
mygothicheart.bsky.social
THE MELUSINE MURDERS I 98k Gothic Fantasy I Wood Worm X The Fox & The Devil X Strange Beasts

🐍Unapologetic Monstress
🐍French folklore
🐍Found family
🐍Enemies 2 lovers
🐍Hidden magic, high 🌶️

This project has received 7 invitations to query, 4 full requests & 3 partials
#GhostPit #Q #UP #R #F #MM #G
The words “Agent Guide, Gothic Fantasy, 98k NA/Adult, title: The Melusine Murders by Jesse Weiner” displayed over a dark, smoky background The words, “The Pitch: A woman descended of the mythic Melusine races to catch the killer who kidnapped her Maman before he claims them both for his next deadly experiment—and before a keen-eyed detective lays claim to her heart” displayed over a dark, smoky background
October 30, 2026 at 2:58 PM
alexandrakuhrt.bsky.social
🩸Let them Drink Blood 🩸 is an adult gothic fantasy novel set in a world where vampires are revered celebrities, and a woman in her late twenties will do anything to become one of them.
It is currently a Work in Progress.

#A #W #G #F #Ghostpit
An Agent's Guide to "Let Them Drink Blood". A gothic fantasy work in progress. The Plot: An Eternal is dead. A new spot is available! In a world where vampires are revered celebrities, loved by all, Edwina Todd is determined to snatch up the only spot to become a new vampire and escape her boring and depressing life. When she becomes one of the Chosen, she is paired with Theodore Errington, the vampire who has been turning women’s heads for centuries. But as the selection process goes on, Edie learns horrible truths about the beings treasured by society, and to make matters worse, a vampire hunter is trying to recruit her to bring down the blood-sucking upper class. Will she sell her soul for fame and prestige, or share what she has learned with the public and expose the vampires for what they really are? Comps: One Dark Window for dark, gothic atmosphere. If We Were Villains for toxic relationships. The Vampire Lestat for Vampires as celebrities. Yesteryear for a product of society main character you'll love to hate.
October 30, 2026 at 3:54 PM