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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
corrineonawhim.bsky.social
Happy Halloween! You deserve a treat (a fashionably late #GhostPit post / #agentguide teaser for my book about rich boys doing stupid things like summoning demons)

Full guide next week!
October 31, 2026 at 2:44 PM
aewrites.bsky.social
THE WITCHES OF DENHOLM - YA contemporary fantasy and your next witchy fall read! 🎃

🌔Parallel witch town, torn between worlds🌔
🧹Cozy witchcore
📖Enchanted library
🍂Autumn/Harvest magic
🍿Teen drama, strained friendships
🖤Love interest with a dark edge

#GhostPit 👻 #YA #agentguide
Collage-style mood board with witchy-vibes: raven, enchanted objects, blood moon, waterfall, athenaeum, curiosity shop, wrought iron gate, gravestone, witchy festival, tree of life symbol, snowy New England setting. Blood red moon hovering above trees. Raven
October 30, 2026 at 5:50 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
breebwrites.bsky.social
It’s been too long since the Massacre Mansion last tasted blood, but with Hollywood determined to capitalize on the Mansion’s sordid past through a new reality TV game show & Lissa’s personal quest for vengeance, the Mansion is about to have the buffet of a lifetime.

#GhostPit #A #H #Q #agentguide
A dark and vine covered mansion with the title MASSACRE MANSION in the center. Book comps: The handyman method by Nick Cutter and Andrew F Sullivan, hide by Kiersten White, Patricia wants to cuddle by Samantha Allen, and episode 13 by Craig DiLouie. Tropes found in my book: haunted mansion, don’t split up, 2000s reality TV, rural Pennsylvania, let the bodies hit the floor, morally gray all day, eat the rich, Eldritch terror. First line: profiting from the deaths of real people should be illegal.
October 30, 2026 at 6:23 PM
galenbunting.bsky.social
ELIA IN ISOLA:
THE STARVING SAINTS X THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH
1600s. Renaissance Venice.
A trans boy trapped in a convent learns that his visions of murder are true. But it is Carnivale, and he longs to slip outside
#ghostpit #ya #g #His #HF #h #w #OWN #lgbt #agentguide
Gothic Horror Historical 👻
Images of a pomegranate, nun, convent grate, Elia in Isola in gothic letters over a red background with a brass goblet, a historical gothic novel of venice by galen bunting, wip Elia in Isola.image of a young nun novice folding his hands before a dark archway and has a gold halo, crimson background Trapped, Trans Nun, Visions, gothic fantasy: Comparative titles, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, The Starving Saints, anatomy a love story, the knight and the moth, There is a picture of a book of hours with a floral border in black at the bottom Images of a pomegranate, nun, convent grate, Elia in Isola in gothic letters over a red background, text, Elia swam in blood, it clung, warm and real and disgusting, down to his ankles, all was blood. image of a young nun novice folding his hands before a dark archway and has a gold halo, there are medieval marginal illustrations featuring a lady in red and a knight in blue, words read: My next project? Elia in Isola Gothic Historical (1600s Venice) Dark When sixteen-year-old Elia is sent to a convent to hide his disturbing visions, his prophecies are confirmed when a murderer begins attacking young women throughout 1600s Venice. Elia must step outside the convent walls and into the shadow of Carnivale- or his friends may be the next to die.
October 30, 2026 at 4:55 AM
dani-s-writes.bsky.social
My agent's guide for my 7th novel, a cozy fantasy complete at 88k words, and with a spin off in the works. The strongest novel I've ever written!
🍄✨🔮🌿💖
Don't take my word for it though, check out the glowing beta feedback in the comments 🥰

#agentguide#writingcommunity
October 31, 2026 at 11:28 AM
ruchi-writes.bsky.social
SHE’S THE MAN, BUT MAKE IT E-SPORTS

💘 ambitious, chaotic rookie + stoic team captain
🎮 they really, really don't want to fall for each other
💥 fun banter + plot driven romance
🏆 found family/team dynamic

#R #A #NA #amquerying #agentguide
October 21, 2026 at 5:37 AM
galenbunting.bsky.social
My agent guide for WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN!
TLDR: Trans runaway catches feelings for a half-alien boy who caught a meteorite. When his mom's cult captures his new boyfriend as a hostage, he must claim his powers or lose him forever. #YA #agentguide #LGBTfiction #writingcommunity #nowquerying
galenbunting.bsky.social Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚 @galenbunting.bsky.social · Jul 24
WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN: HELL FOLLOWED WITH US X OLD WOUNDS X INTO THE LIGHT: When a healer flees his mother's cult, he joins a hitchiker who caught a meteorite as they head to a UFO festival- until the cult closes in to capture their Chosen One.
#Q #Questpit #SF #YA #amquerying #agentguide
INTRO SLIDE ALT TEXT Slide featuring an image of two boys in blue against a red backdrop, one has a shaved head, wears a black hoodie, and is shorter with dark eyes. the other has long blond hair, wears an olive jacket, and pale eyes. There is an image of a galaxy. WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN, Young Adult, 89k Words, Speculative, LGBTQIA artist credit batsudie on instagram THE PITCH ALT TEXT On a starfield: picture features two boys, one has blond hair and points up at a meteor shower, the other follows his hand with his eyes, they lay in the bed of a pickup truck, surrounded by a desert landscape. WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN When 17-year-old Christophe, a trans faith healer, flees his mother's cult after a miracle goes wrong, he joins forces with 18-year-old February, a UFO-forum moderating hitchhiker, whose hand is changing in strange ways after he caught a meteorite. They embark on a road trip to a UFO festival - before the cult can drag Christophe home and use him as their Chosen One. Artist credit tenderism on Instagram WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN, COMPARATIVE TITLES, trans coming of rage as a caption, with a white arrow pointing to hell followed with us, and then a caption saying religious trauma and another saying speculative road-trip with white arrows pointing to MARK OSHIRO's into the light, and a caption saying claustrophobic small town with a white arrow pointing to OLD WOUNDS by LOGAN-ASHLEY KISNER On a star field and a moon, FIRST LINES God, Christophe prays. Please let me disappear. Please don't make me go up onstage, in front of everyone today. Just this once, I don't want to heal. He hides in the closet at the back of the church. The echoing voices tell him that the sanctuary is full. The dusty, out-of-tune piano pounds out a hymn, and his heart thuds dully inside him. He should be out there, helping pass out the cups of grape juice, the cups of wine, the wafers of Our Lord. He should be preparing for the healing, the laying-on of hands, when his mother will call him to the front.
October 19, 2026 at 8:05 PM
roxanne-ocasio.bsky.social
✨Presenting an agent’s guide to Code Red, my 92K-word adult dystopian fantasy.✨

Currently querying! I’d love to get this story across some more desks before the end of the year.

#agentguide #amquerying #latinapower
October 12, 2026 at 11:08 PM
m1sh4.bsky.social
shoutout to fellow #roundtablementor mentee Kit for this insanely cool #agentguide for my manuscript!

LEGENDBORN x THE NIGHT ENDS WITH FIRE x WITCH HAT ATELIER

🔥A female fire-wielder disguises herself as a boy for a chance at glory in a kingdom where only men can wield magic.

#UN #YA #F
October 12, 2026 at 9:26 PM
arcofthesun.bsky.social
Introducing the #agentsguide to BENEATH THE ARC OF THE SUN, my political flintlock fantasy.

⚜️Gas lamps and gunpowder
⚜️Evil capitalist republic
⚜️Age-old feuds
⚜️Romance between a biologist and a map-maker

I officially #amquerying. Agents, my manuscript is ready for you!
#agentguide #writesky
October 6, 2026 at 1:16 AM
katdevittwrites.bsky.social
**REVISED**

*Cut from 95k to 87k.
*Major changes to 1st 1/2 of MS.
Dipping my toes back into the #querytrenches with this one...

ONLY MONSTERS LIVE HERE is an 87k adult queer gothic horror with a dual 1st-person POV inspired by Scottish legends and folklore.

#agentsguide #agentguide
October 4, 2026 at 12:48 AM
ashlynmriddle.bsky.social
Introducing my YA Dystopian Thriller, ARENABOUND!
now that I'm #amquerying again, I'm posting a #agentguide!
#agentsguide
-LGBTQ rep
-rivals to lovers
-slow burn + banter
#dystopian
October 3, 2026 at 8:54 PM
emiloulockett.bsky.social
Introducing SEAMFALLEN, a YA Fantasy crossover. Princess Mononoke meets Joan of Arc in a kingdom infested with spirits that steal human features. A courtesan claims divine intervention and trades her corset for a crossbow.
#agentguide #writesky #amquerying
Seamfallen The Pitch: Seventeen-year-old Maev refuses to die a courtesan. After killing a soul-stealing spirit, she lies that a goddess guided her and earns a place in the all-male spirit corps. But when Maev discovers the spirits can be healed, she must decide whether to protect the kingdom that never protected her —or expose both its lies and her own and risk the freedom she’s fought for. Themes & tropes: girl infiltrates an all-male institution, spirits that steal human features, freedom vs. being caged, morally-grey rebellion, lies her way to power, magical artifacts Comps & inspirations: Princess Mononoke (intricate world-building & unique spirits), The Scorpion and the Night Blossom (magical artifacts& enemies-to-allies), Joan of Arc but she's a fraud.
October 2, 2026 at 9:52 PM
breebwrites.bsky.social
My Agent Guide for MASSACRE MANSION 🩸😈🖤

#agentguide #agentsguide #amquerying #amqueryinghorror
September 30, 2026 at 2:12 PM
funkybaby.bsky.social
For the upcoming #DVPit, here’s an #agentsguide for SATURNINE, my #A #F about a student who makes a deal with a necromancer to raise her professor from the dead🖤

🎓Dark Academia
⛪️Southern Gothic
🚜 Dropout, outsider MC
🐍Snake familiar
🫀Twisty romance
🌙Unique magic system

#amquerying #agentguide #R
A dark and moody background with a stone arched gate, tree branches, and Spanish moss. An emblem of two white snakes. The text: SATURNINE An adult dark academia fantasy 97,000 words A dark background of a snake marble sculpture. The text over it: Pitch Harper Claire’s dreams of an academic career died with her trusted mentor. When the faculty dismisses the blatantly ritualistic scene as an accident, she drops out of Occult Mor University, vowing to prove it was murder. Her best chance is Rich, a washed-up grifter claiming he can raise the dead for a single day—except his rare magic has been sealed by a sigil carved into his flesh. Harper offers him a deal: if she lifts the sigil, he’ll bring her mentor back. But as they sneak across Mor’s waterlogged grounds and their attraction deepens, Harper fears the sigil holds back more than he admits. Some powers are too devastating to ever be unleashed, and Harper’s debt to her dead mentor might cost her a lot more than a broken heart. Dark background of a vaulted classical ceiling. The title says: For fans of. Four book covers: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo with a note: Gritty, modern tone, morally messy heroine, YEARNING. An academy for liars by Alexis Henderson with a note: Institutional corruption. Katabasis by R. F. Kuang with a note: Underworld descent. Starling House by Alix E. Harrow with a note: Small-town, Southern Gothic atmosphere, bittersweet love story A collage of images: a silhouette of a woman with a short messy bob. A man with a muscular back. A statue of Cupid and Psyche. A road sign that says GATES TO HELL not a public road. A facade of a red brick, collegiate style building. A woman in short black skirt and lacy bustier lying on a bed with a notebook and headphones. The text layered over says: Forced proximity He falls first Touch him and die Working class, outsider MC One of a kind magic system A snake familiar Quotes from the book: Disco slept in her bed sometimes, curled in the crook of her shoulder, snout tucked against her neck. He prayed she would never learn the true purpose of the snake. She just watched him, silently and intensely, in her signature deep dissatisfied , as if she saw his heart, liver, and lungs, bleeding and throbbing, where she wanted him to be full of magic instead. SATURN SAVE US "Harper... the name of my pain,"
September 28, 2026 at 4:59 PM
michaelprocopio.bsky.social
I'm excited to share my #agentguide for my new queer romantic comedy "It's a Bad Idea, Right?"

🍰 Bakery romance
💍 Ex's wedding
💕 Fake dating
🏠 Roommates-to-lovers
✨ Learning to want more

#amquerying #writingcommunity
An Agent's Guide to "It's a Bad Idea, Right?" A slow-burn queer romantic comedy. An image of a winter landscape with a wedding cake in the corner. In the center is the text that is the pitch for the manuscript. An image of a winter landscape with a wedding cake in the corner. In the center are the tropes and themes, which include fake dating, roommates to lovers, taking a chance on love, and finding your purpose. An image of a winter landscape with a wedding cake in the corner. In the center is text that provides a sample of the writing.
September 27, 2026 at 5:55 PM
eviehartwell.bsky.social
Time to introduce FOR FEATHER OR WORSE, currently in the query trenches! ✨ Inspired by Hungarian folklore, it follows a down-on-her-luck scholar who must ally with the wickedly charming lidérc of her past to break her sister’s curse—without falling for him along the way. 🐦‍⬛ #AmQuerying #AgentGuide
September 18, 2026 at 6:05 PM
thewritegirl.bsky.social
My agent's guide.

#writingcommunity #writer #agentguide #editing
September 7, 2026 at 1:34 PM
christirsuzanne.bsky.social
I made an agent/editor guide! It was fun. Check out The Last Portnova (80k). I've soft launched my querying. #horror #modern #ghoststory #agentguide #writingcommunity
The Last Portnova by Christi R. Suzanne Agent Guide, first graphic with tropes and mysterious history. The Last Portnova by Christi R. Suzanne Agent Guide, the pitch graphic. The Last Portnova by Christi R. Suzanne Agent Guide, levels of tone and content. The Last Portnova by Christi R. Suzanne Agent Guide, comps graphic.
August 19, 2026 at 12:05 AM
rihdaraklay.bsky.social
WE HARVEST THE CARNAGE: AGENT GUIDE 🫀

Presenting my 90,000-word fantasy horror about a college freshman who joins a club of pre-meds to harvest the organs of the elite with body magic🩸

#agents - if you're looking for guts and gays, this is for you!

#agentguide #querying
WE HARVEST THE CARNAGE - adult fantasy horror, 90,000 words - in which a college freshman joins a club of pre-meds to harvest the organs of the elite with body magic. dark academia x body x horror dual timeline - south asian rep x bi4bi x STEM - vengeance, moral ambiguity, and guts galore blurb - please DM for text version due to character limit! vibes - books: honey by imani thompson, ninth house by leigh bardugo, if we were villains by m.l. rio, and kill billionaire by anders lustgarten. songs - pictures of you by the cure, fireproof by mitski, them changes by thundercat, little dark age by mgmt first 300 words - please DM for text version due to character limit!
August 12, 2026 at 10:18 PM
emkerkman.bsky.social
#questpit #SF #SFF #A #NA #W #agentguide

DE TERRA AD INFINITUM
💫 ~90k
🌟 Adult/New Adult dieselpunk sci-fantasy
💫 currently standalone, open to sequel
🌟 contains romance, but not romance-centric
💫 knock off pod racing from Star Wars in unique dystopian setting
🌟 bisexual FMC (who gets the girl)
Title page: De Terra Ad Infinitum, Adult/New Adult science fiction by E. M. Kerkman The Pitch: Alexia “Terrah” Terranova moonlights as a pilot, illegally racing planes beneath Helix City, a massive dieselpunk city floating in Earth’s lower atmosphere. During the day, she’s a model student at the Academy of Aeronautics. Terrah is content with her life, but when planes begin exploding during races, she finds herself unwillingly involved in trying to solve the mystery. Forced to unite the two halves of her world—her friends at the academy and her racing team—to survive, the six of them evade blackmail, sabotage, and even an attempted kidnapping to chase the mystery to its source. When the team finally uncovers the secret at the mystery’s core, they realize it could reignite the war between Helix City and their long-dormant enemies. Before they can reveal it to the world, Terrah’s group is violently fractured, and her story becomes one of survival against insurmountable odds. Will she make it back to Helix City in time to save it, or will her home be destroyed before she can warn them about their literal downfall, hidden in plain sight? For fans of: bulleted list: Dieselpunk/Retrofuturism Near-future alternate-Earth and post-apocalypse settings Military Academy inspired settings Cold-War-inspired politics Complex and divided societies New-Adult-aged characters Forgiveness as a tool for growth Losing and regaining friendships Escaping a familial legacy Messy romantic relationships Queer love triangles Found family Multiple POVs Comp titles: moral engines by Phillip reeve, retribution falls by Chris wooding, airborn by Kenneth oppel, skyward by Brandon Sanderson, and leviathan by Scott westerfield Excerpt from chapter 6 Callum stepped inside the Admiral’s office and closed the door softly behind him. The Admiral gestured for him to sit in one of the empty chairs in front of her desk, not looking up as she leafed through a pile of papers. Brilliant white light streamed in through the arched industrial window at the back of her office, casting everything in a ghostly gray. “I have a task for you, Callum,” she said as he sat, finally looking at him. Callum ran his sweaty palms down his thighs. “The girl from the entrance exam.” It was a statement, not a question, and Admiral Astara’s expression softened a bit as she watched him squirm. “Correct. You’re smarter than you look.” She handed him a dark green plasticine folder. “I pulled her file. You might be interested in what’s inside.” Callum didn’t bother to question the legality of it and opened the folder, scanning through it quickly. It was emptier than other files he’d seen, and though the photo in the upper left corner was old, her cold, brown eyes and difficult scowl hadn’t changed at all in the years since it was taken. The name next to the photo gave him pause, even though he expected it. Alexia Terranova. Terranova as in TerraCorp. She really is alive, he thought, and he must’ve said it aloud, as Admiral Astara sighed and leaned back in her seat. “She is,” she replied, “and that poses problems.”
August 7, 2025 at 3:09 AM
stevietrujillo.bsky.social
#LitAgents #AgentGuide #WSPitQ #ME+ #StoriesThatMatter #BlueCrew #Hope #Vanlife

When we became #homeless, we moved into our van and drove south where there was less shame in being poor. What we found was the real #AmericanDream- the truth about how we all lost it and the roadmap to get it back.
stevietrujillo.bsky.social Stevie Trujillo 💙🦋💃🏽 @stevietrujillo.bsky.social · Feb 27
AMERICAN DETOUR: A Search for a New Dream on the World’s Longest Road, an outward-facing memoir about the promise of the American dream—how I lost my grip on it personally during the Great Recession, how we lost it as a nation when we turned neoliberal & how we can all get it back

#WSPitQ #ME #NF
February 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
leah-holler-writes.bsky.social
It’s happening! I officially #amquerying my YA solarpunk novel! 😅🤩😳✨🌳☀️🌞. So here is the #agentguide for SPIRITS FED BY SUN AND STREAM

#agentsguide #ya #fantasy #scifi #clifi #solarpunk
An Agent’s Guide to SPIRITS FED BY SUN AND STREAM by Leah Holleran. YA sci-fantasy, 99k words. Light green background with tree designs and 4 moodboard images PITCH: In an eco-utopia where people’s spirits are bonded with trees, an anxious teen seeks a cure for the suspicious blight that’s killing her best friend’s soul. When a strange sickness starts infecting soul trees and leaves her best friend in a coma, fifteen year old Willow won’t let her panic attacks get in the way of finding a cure. She ventures through the wilderness to the legendary City, a former ecological marvel now ravaged by the same blight. Her search suggests the answers she needs lie in the City’s eco-tech. But in exchange for access, the City’s leader—who has no soul tree and covet’s Willow’s ability to use her soul tree’s senses—demands a price. Willow must choose: her freedom and any chance of returning home, or the cure that will save her best friend’s soul. SPIRITS FED BY SUN AND STREAM by Leah Holleran COMPS: Studio Ghibli for the whimsy and nature magic SKIPSHOCK by Caroline O’Donoghue for the rich worldbuilding grounded in character THE ONES WE’RE MEANT TO FIND by Joan He for the themes of love for family and found family strong enough to save the world MONK AND ROBOT by Becky Chambers for the solarpunk, queer-normative society OPENING: Willow’s soul leaves her body when she realizes how badly she messed up this time. Only for a second, though. No need to show Elm she’s upset enough to send her spirit into her soul tree to calm down.
May 15, 2026 at 8:57 PM