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dark moody forest fantasy moss teeth mushroom light dark tropes
comp titles moodboard with images of book covers, a river enchanted, the knight and the moth, the road of bones
DAWN OF THE CICADA
adult fantasy 105,000 words
Her enemies wield steel; Lisara wields their darkest emotions, animated as living weapons.
Disney’s Enchanted x The Witcher
#questpit #Q #F #RF #agentsguide #amquierying #fantasy
SILVER ELITE X RINGS OF FATE
Kiaara has been hiding all her life. And you know what? She’s comfortable. Now, that’s changed. In order to take back the throne she has to put her life, and heart, on the line.
😘 Rivals to Lovers
Quest
✨Chosen One
🪄 Hidden Magic
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Reasons to love To Ruin the Sky
ELECTRIC SEXUAL TENSION. Excerpt reads: There's a possessiveness in how he touches me and I wish I hated it. "How would you punish me?" I breathe out, unable to control my impulses. Fingers touch my zip as he slowly slips it down, millimetre by millimetre. My body is completely in his thrall, unable to decipher the beat of my heart from the thump of the speaker's bass. Cloudy background with one half of a lightning bolt
MORALLY-GREY IS THE COLOUR OF CHOICE... Two moodboards with information about the two main characters
INCLUDES TOP TIER TROPES... Four book comparisons: Crescent City, Kingdom of the Wicked, Book of Azrael, Quicksilver with tropes attached The other half of a lightning bolt with a cloudy background
Presenting to the #questpit & #writingcommunity crew…
Reasons to love To Ruin the Sky ⚡️
Kingdom of the Wicked x Crescent City
♥︎Led by a sassy, 'shadow mommy' FMC
🫶🏼Fresh take on Romantasy
🪞#MiddleEasternRep
🚨Fills that Xaden-shaped hole in your life
#agentsguide #RF #Q #NA #writersky
Adult romantasy titled "My Thorns For Your Roses." A collage of scenic photos which includes a night sky, a bridge over a stream, a fox in an autumn wood, Scottish lowlands, a Medieval feast table, a bonfire, a pine forest covered in snow, a stream in a dark wood, a butterfly on a thistle flower, and an iced-over path in the forest. A snippet is included: “You shouldn’t touch a woman who isn’t your wife so casually,” I rebuked the man. Our eyes met and we engaged in a battle of wills. My anger versus the spellbinding quality of his stare. My heart raced – furious and exhilarated– bewildered by how the two blended so seamlessly. “Is that a proposal?”
AFTER THE FOREST (magic, dash of history) x
FOR THE WOLF (biting edge of darkness) x
EMILY WILDE (voice, fae)
Lark falls for the shapeshifting faerie who cursed her and must save him from his cannibal ex.
Debuting April 2026 with
@conquestpublishing.bsky.social
#QuestPit #A #RF #P #BookSky
A nighttime scene in a dimly lit but warm carriage with rich, dark colors and a soft glow of candlelight. Meryn, dressed in a pastel green-blue off the shoulder dress, sits in Vale’s lap. Her chestnut brown hair spills down her back. They’re gazing at each other intensely; she has her hand on his cheek, and he is holding her at the small of her back. Vale’s dark gold hair touches his shoulders; he’s wearing a regency style shirt and a black waistcoat.
An illustration of my characters — Meryn and Vale — in an almost kiss, blood running down her neck from Vale’s vampire bite. They are dressed in regency inspired clothing; Vale with his shirt open and Meryn in a moss green dress.
When her thieving rival steals the ancient relic of a vampire she’s now accidentally blood-bound to, Meryn is forced to help him retrieve it. With her blood as ransom, their dark bargain leads to desire—but at what cost?
Dracula x Bridgerton x Tethered
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PRINCESS MONONOKE meets Roth's BLOOD MERCY
Minot didn't expect to meet her soulmate on an impromptu business trip. She also didn't expect to witness a murder, meet a monstrous god, & become the subject of a nationwide scandal.
But yk what they say about the best laid plans...
A collage featuring a gothic castle, knight, and books. Overlaid the collage is a text excerpt from Beware the Ever After that reads: Locke knew perhaps there was no one else, both in the books or in real life, who could understand them as they did one another. Who could comprehend the immensity of a life stuck in a forever purgatory – never getting to atone for your mistakes, yet always having to live with them.
Now querying BEWARE THE EVER AFTER, 93k, adult speculative w/romance
🏰 Cursed to live in the world of fiction by sentient, vengeful books
💭 Be careful what you wish for...
❤️🔥 Sultry, slow burn romance
⚔️ Flawed hero & heroine
📖 THE EVERLASTING x THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY
#Questpit #Q #F #S #RF
#QuestPit #OS #AG #A #F #RF #FR
Calling all agents!
🥀Pinocchio retelling
🥀PENELOPE w/ EVER AFTER vibes
🥀vanity magic system
🥀disability rep
🥀star-crossed friends-to-lovers
🥀morally-gray rebel vs. loyal best friend
🥀masquerade balls & fantasy couture 👗✨
🥀otherness & belonging
#QuestPit #Q #YA #F #RF #agentsguide | Now querying!
When the Queen’s High General, Garrick, arrives at her war camp searching for the rumored Essence Weaver, he shocks Ren by sparing her life. Instead, he offers a place in the rebellion to overthrow the Queen. Ren agrees to join with intentions to kill the Queen herself. Along the way, her loyalties to Garrick are tested by an unforeseen connection: the son of her sworn enemy Prince Daeg. Despite opposing the rebellion, Prince Daeg offers Ren knowledge of her abilities, freedom from Garrick’s constricting control and a quiet understanding that begins to break down the walls around her guarded heart. But as Ren’s powers grow, so do the betrayals. Garrick’s thirst for power begins to mirror the Queen’s cruelty, especially when Ren discovers he is more than a guard to the Queen. His claim to the throne is not just ambition, but inheritance and he’s seeking to replace, not dismantle, the Queen’s legacy. However, it was never in Prince Daeg’s plans to kill his mother, even if doing so would break Ren’s curse. Now, Ren must decide which future she’s willing to fight for: revenge and Garrick’s rule, or a chance at a future with Daeg without the revenge she’s sought her whole life- all before the curse chooses for her.
*YA dark fantasy with a romance subplot, FOR A THOUSAND LIVES, complete at 82,000 words* A standalone with series potential, it blends the emotional romantic twists of Divine Rivals and the dark undertones of Belladonna. FOR A THOUSAND LIVES will appeal to fans who love Carissa Broadbent and Rachel Gillig’s writing of forbidden magic, gritty characters with emotionally authentic arcs, morally complex heroines, slow burn romance, and character driven stories.
🖤Rachel Gillig ✨ meets ⚔️Carissa Broadbent 🖤
For a Thousand Lives ; 82k
⚔️She’s seeking revenge against the Queen who cursed her mother
✨With the help of a traitorous general, a dying spy and a lying prince.
🖤But is the cost of revenge worth her heart?
#Questpit #F #YA #Q #RF #agentsguide
🖤⚡️VEILSTRIDER⚡️🖤
Feral. Bisexual. Unhinged.
Viv survives a sentient world ruled by outlawed magic, bloodshed, and violent regimes.
With a queer found family and a devastating, slow-burn romance carved from devotion, "touch her and you die" isn’t a threat, it’s a promise.
#Questpit #Q
#A #F #RF #DF
Imagine The Handmaid’s Tale in a fantasy setting.
Except the main character was brought up as a future leader… and knows exactly how to bring the empire down.
A FATE INKED IN BLOOD x SERVANT OF EARTH
🥀 Norse mythology
⚔️ Swedish folklore
🥀 FMC turns villain
⚔️ Female rage
#Q #A #RF #questpit
🥀 AN AGENT’S GUIDE TO WILTED FATE🥀
When subservient Astrid’s mentor is executed, she must perform an immoral ritual to justify her position as a future leader, or face the punishment of the gods.
🥀 Female rage
🥀 Mythology based
🥀 Enemies to lovers
🥀 Villainous arc
#Q #A #RF #QuestPit
#questpit THE EXECUTIONER’S WIDOW: When the kingdom’s executioner dies, his teen son must inherit the blade. To save him, his widow disguises herself as her son and takes the post—risking death if exposed, while uncovering secrets that could destroy the crown.
I’m a trad-published author.
#w #rf #a
"Agent's guide to The Iris and the Aconite". On the left side there is a locket, toadstool, and a book with a rose on it. On the right there is a vine wrapping a crystal, mushrooms, and a vial. Below the title, there are two men in princely attire. One of them is wearing a crown.
This slide has two men on it. One is a king with dark hair and dark skin, dressed in total attire (our ML). The other has long dark hair, pale skin, and is wearing modern attire because the author could not find a suitable image on Canva of a man with long hair and formal, fantasy attire. The king is described as a simp, kind but a lil scary, divinely gifted, and besties with a goddess. The MC (Kresimir) is described as an ex-courtesan, investigator, impudent brat (and proud of it), and as loving his bestie would die for her. A pink arrow with a heart is above the two men
Blurb:Seduce the King. Kill Kiss him. Don’t Do join his band of magical investigators. Certainly do not fall in love with him. The only thing that courtesan Kresimir Zaheriev wants more than a happy life for his best friend is bloody vengeance against the king who executed his parents. When word reaches him that the powerful chancellor is searching for an assassin to slay the king, Kresimir jumps at the chance without a second thought. All he has to do is catch the king’s attention while working in the palace. Easy work for a courtesan. Too easy! The king will not let him be! He’d merely helped find a small part of a criminal cult, and now the king has decided to make Kresimir his new toy. Everywhere Kresimir turns, the king is there to recruit him for yet another insane plot, never allowing him even a moment to breathe. And the worst part is that Kresimir might even be enjoying it. Not only the investigation into the cult, but also the company of the king, who has proven himself to be nothing like Kresimir’s longed-for tyrant. He is, instead, maddeningly cheery, kind, and infuriatingly handsome. The longer they are together, the more Kresimir doubts his mission and the circumstances of his parents’ execution. But he has already promised the king’s death to the chancellor, and going back on his word means not only losing his life, but that of his best friend as well. And there is nothing that Kresimir would not sacrifice for her.
Slide with a picnic basket, flower vine, and mirror. Snippet: “Why do you want it so badly?” Kresimir asked. “I wish to use it as bait for the rest of those traffickers,” the tree man replied. “But I loathe to put you in danger, of course. It’ll be best if it’s off your hands.” Touching. Kresimir was hardly listening. He was calculating the price. What use was this old page to him anyway? What use was it to this tree man, who couldn’t even read it? Unless he was lying about his illiteracy, but what reason would he have to . . . Indeed, it was better to assume he spoke the truth for now. “Fifty thousand lijas,” Kresimir said. “Fifty,” the tree man said faintly. “I’ll settle for thirty thousand.” “Settle?” Kresimir turned away. “I suddenly feel rather attached to this page. Perhaps I will keep it—” “Thirty thousand,” the tree man said. “A contract for thirty thousand lijas will be delivered to your accommodation by tomorrow morning.” “I’m glad we could reach an agreement.” Kresimir pulled a pen and paper from his coat pocket. It was always best to be prepared. “Shall we get it in writing?”
✅ m/m romantasy 👨❤️👨
✅113000 words
✅Courtesan to investigator pipeline
✅Silver-tongued ex-courtesan MC
✅Assassin x king 👑🗡️
✅ King with divine gifts
✅Gods that do things
✅Slow burn + yearning ❤️🔥
✅Cults with magic 🪄
✅ Simp ML x black cat MC
#questpit #RF #F #LGBT #amquerying #MMromance
on the left is an image of an open book, and below that an image of an old wooden staircase. on top of both of those images is an image of a goddess statue. Next to that is an image of a silhouette of a girl holding up a sword. To the far right is an image of a girl draped in white with a lantern. There is a half circle golden disc across the top like the sun.
FOXGLOVE KING x SECOND DEATH OF LOCKE
Doubts of becoming a saint drip like blood through her dreams.
Images of ancient dragons and her father’s face awaken one last selfish desire within her: to find the truth of her father’s death before her blood spills on the altar.
#Q #F #RF #A #questpit
POV: You accept a teaching position at an academic institution run by an exiled Devil who encourages his students to pursue wickedness.
Whoops.
This Adult Romantasy features:
😇Gods vs. 😈 Devils
👩🏽🏫 Dark academia from the staff POV
🤣 Humor & 💪 strong voice
❤️🔥Heat & spice
#questpit #F #R #RF #W
An agent guide for The Siren's Call by Danielle Bradbury and Ashlea P Screaton. A new adult slowburn romantasy.
Pitch: Delphine dreams of adventure, but usually pays for it in bruises. Pirate captain Osian offers an escape to sea, but she won't leave without her best friend, Otto. Her escape seems dead in the water, until Otto is sent with the pirates to pursue a legendary Stone, and she will not be left behind. Reunited on the waves, Osian and Delphine's spark strengthens. Then a deception within the crew locks a cruel enemy from Osian's past onto their tail, one who will stop at nothing to end his life. While Osian is eager to forget the reward, the pirates want Otto's life if the mission fails. Delphine must decide whether to trust the man she's falling for, or betray him to save Otto.
Comp Titles: Once Upon A Broken Heart (Stephanie Garber) - Cocky but hopelessly romantic love interest - Selfless heroine sacrificing all for love - Magic and myths - Betrayal - True slow burn romance Daughter Of No Worlds (Carissa Broadbent) - Reluctant allies to lovers - Broken love interest with a scarring secret - Male yearning - Betrayal - Hidden rage & trauma Dark Water Daughter (H. M. Long) - High stakes survival and adventure - Critical quest fuelled by legend - Changing loyalty - Pirate fantasy - Sea myths & magical creatures
Snippet: “Would you? Have regretted it, I mean?” Their eyes met. Delphine pinned him with her expectant stare, and he worried again whether she could rummage around his mind for the answers she sought. What could he say? She’d no doubt find him obsessive if he told her the truth – how he’d spent so many waking moments wondering if she remembered their one dance as fondly as he did, when moonlight had clung to her hair and tickled her face as she’d taunted him beneath the stars. How he’d been so relieved to see her on board his ship, in a way he couldn’t put into words. How he hadn’t managed to get rid of the smell of sugar since meeting her, and didn’t want to. Would he have regretted her kiss? “No, Ceraid.” He swallowed, shuffling under the weight of the question. “I could have never regretted it.”
Once Upon A Broken Heart x Daughter Of No Worlds x Dark Water Daughter
A maid and a pirate hunting for a mythical stone spark a budding romance, but when his past threatens their mission & her bff's life, she must betray her heart to save her friend.
#QuestPit #NA #RF #Editing
Introducing an Editors Guide to: THE METAMORPHOSIS OF CALLIOPE LECLAIRE
🧡 YA romantic fantasy standalone
🌌 dual-POV
⏳ grumpy x sunshine
🌠 sister-story
💌 gods based on human psyche
💫 whimsical island in the sky
🕰️ identity & self-acceptance
#questpit #F #YA #RF #AG #OS
gorg
3x3 collage: Adam driver as kylo ren looking down in the snow, crumbling Greek pillars with a fruit tree in front of it, an old painting with a woman laying dead while a man stands above her in ancient clothing, the rough sea against jutting cliffs, a dragon setting an army on fire, a hand curled over a burning basin, the painting of Circe commanding her tigers and lions, figs scattered on a plate, and nadia parkes as livia looking on in shock with dark hair and Roman clothing
fire & blood x black sun
when the oracles of drábek were slaughtered a millennia ago, varsan queens lost all power. but as the sea whispers of a religious war set ablaze by drákōn fire, melinoë dreams the oracles will return…
with her as their vessel
#questpit #AG #RF #DF
Where The Dark Stands Still x Powerless
Wounded by a shadow beast immune to her blade, a knight stumbles upon an abandoned manor and meets a sorcerer whose star magic can slay the monster...but only if she convinces him to finally leave his cage
#QuestPit #RF #YA #W (Querying soon)
A MEMORY OF MOONKISSED MALICE Fantasy Dark Academia Feminine Rage Vampires Corrupted Moon Magic Villain Era Protag Queendoms Enemies to Lovers Found Family
THE PITCH 18-year-old Alyss Veylas wishes to attend Nocturne Collegiate for one reason—revenge. Five long years after her sister was murdered by the school's guardian, she finally gets that chance. Armed with a Moon Fragment granting memory magic and the aid of her ex and his new girlfriend, Alyss must confront the woman who took away the person she loved most. YA Gothic Fantasy 93,000 Words
CHAPTER ONE The rain made it easier to rob his grave. My shovel carved through the sodden earth, the water contorting into murky veins around its edge. Desperation drove each labored thrust, the burning ache in my muscles but an afterthought to the prize that lied in wait. Even the Valera Forest held its breath; the fog thick enough to smother the night's whispers. All was silent save for the spilling of soil under the deluge that drenched us. Us. As I lifted my gaze to the boy standing across from me, I found that word had lost all semblance of warmth.
FOR FANS OF... The lush, gothic prose of... A fantasy academia setting similar to... A supernatural mystery like...
ONE DARK WINDOW X KATABASIS
Nocturne Collegiate is celebrated as a sanctuary from warring Queendoms and brutal vampires, but Alyss knows better—its guardian murdered her sister, and now she's come for revenge.🌙🦇⚔️
#QuestPit #OS #AG #YA #F
Towards the Sky I Offer It, an adult dark academia complete at 131k words
The Pitch: Four students are thrown into a quest for answers after witnessing the professor in charge of a prestigious academic fellowship hold a ritual sacrifice in the woods The ambitious scholarship student, the heir to the Aelfric fortune, the boy whose grandfather believed in magic and the poisonous plant expert/tarot card reader
the vibes: ⟡ an isolated university in the Scottish Highlands ⟡ academic rivals who are one more disagreement about poetry away from ending each other ⟡ a found family that’s just four traumatized uni students ⟡ far too much time spent in drafty libraries ⟡ feeling a deep connection to that one weird lake on campus ⟡ tarot card symbolism ⟡ spending so much time studying myths, you start to become one The Secret History x The Raven Boys X BBC Merlin
The Fellowship is the key to a whole new world...but only if you're willing to make the sacrifices required to get in
i am seeking representation for TOWARDS THE SKY I OFFER IT, my dark academia novel inspired by t.s. eliot's "the wasteland", arthurian legends and celtic mythology
🕯️academic rivals to ??
🍂 first in a series
⚔️ multi-POV
agents, please ❤️ for a query/sub!
#questpit #Q #A #F
Turquoise background. Open book image in bottom left with Bookclub 82k. A beautiful young woman in a gold picture frame, spelled with age
A beautiful young woman tossing long dark hair over her shoulder. Eyes closed. Splashes of gold paint on the blue grey background
Four book covers. Blue Sisters, drawing of a young woman's sad face, The Push, two women facing away from each other, silhouette, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a young man's face, half of it aged, Hello Beautiful, a young woman's smiling face. A series of images: spooky trees, a dilapidated pier, a woman on a cat walk, a woman having her face injected,a pale hand reaching for a devil's hand.
Turquoise background, splashes if gold, three boxes of text.
Updated #agentsguide following #questpit
'A sister always has your back, until she sticks a knife in it.' 🔪
#litagents
#amquerying
A collage graphic with a gothic knight, burning books, chandeliers in a ballroom, old books, a red headed woman, a gothic castle and the moon, text graphic that says Once Upon a Time. Text overlaid collage says "Beware the Ever After".
THE EVERLASTING x THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY
Now querying my speculative romance, BEWARE THE EVER AFTER 📖⚔️🏰
📖 sentient, vengeful books
❤️🔥 slow burn YEARNING
📖 readers who live out their favorite tropes
⚔️ ticking clock before they’re permanently turned into the characters…
#Questpit #Q #F #S #RF
black and white dragon based 9 picture moodboard
As a royal seer, Olek has prophesied her own death. There is nothing she can do to stop it, & she will run to it if it means saving her country & family from destruction. Teaming with her reluctant ally, Olek fights Hellish beasts, love, & a 2-headed dragon.
#questpit #AG #A #RF
Split promotional slide on a dark navy background. Left side shows a book-cover style illustration: a silhouetted girl inside two cupped hands, standing in golden-green fields under a starry sky with swirling light. The title reads “HEIRS OF BALANCE” and the author name “LESLEY PARRY.” Right side text reads: “YA Science-Fantasy, 90,000 words. STUDIO GHIBLI meets ANDOR where healing is heresy and compassion sparks rebellion.” Handle “@lesleyparrybooks” and hashtags appear beneath.
A five-panel moodboard framed by black borders. Top-left shows two small figures standing on a hill under a dramatic night sky with the text: “What if medicine was illegal… and you had the power to heal?” Center panel shows shows glowing hands in a forest. Top-right shows an overgrown, glass-domed eco-building rising from a misty valley. Bottom-left a bright green rural settlement with wind turbines in the background. Bottom-right shows a cozy tabletop scene with a mortar and pestle, herbs, and jars, suggesting herbal remedies or healing craft.
“The Story” slide on a dark navy background with a buff watercolor brush stroke across the top. Large serif headline reads “The Story.” Body text summarizes the plot: in a post-apocalyptic world where medicine and touching the sick are forbidden, nineteen-year-old Mira Elders discovers she can heal after saving a dying child; she poses as a Watcher, finds love, is betrayed and taken to the Citadel, and learns a long-buried truth that healing caused the world’s collapse; she must choose to bury her power or use it to spark an empathy revolution.
“If you liked…” slide on a dark navy background with a buff textured brush stroke across the diagonal. Three book covers are centered across the slide: The Nature of Witches (left), The Grace Year (middle), and The Scarlet Alchemist (right). Captions beneath each read: “eco-magic + atmosphere” (left), “oppression + survival stakes” (middle), and “illegal craft + moral cost” (right).
What if medicine was illegal and you learned you had the power to heal?
HEIRS OF BALANCE
GHIBLI x ANDOR
🌱 Post-apocalypse hopepunk
🤐 Family secrets
🧬 Science-based magic
❤️🔥 Slow-burn romance
🥹 Found family
REP: 🧠 ND 🤎 BIPOC and 🌈 LGBTQ+ characters
#QuestPit #Q #SFF #RF #WritingCommunity
