Just been reading a few posts about agents not reading queries. The assumption for this is based on fast deletion rates on QM. I just wanted to give some context to this because it’s unlikely to be that the agent isn’t reading.

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NORMAL PEOPLE X SEVEN DAYS IN JUNE A sober designer and a financially precarious writer must deliver a high-stakes rebrand, but falling for each other threatens his sobriety and her last shot at keeping her home. #PosterPit #A #R #C #LGBT #Q

IRON WIDOW x ARCANE x DISPATCH ⚖️ Secret-identity Slowburn ⚖️ Superhero x Assassin ⚖️ Morally Grey Characters ⚖️ Shifting Morality ⚖️ K*ll the Rich ⚖️ Disabled Queer Rep ⚖️ Power & Corruption ⚖️ Touch Her and D*e #PosterPit #NA #SF #R #Q

Mission Brief 13/01/1972 TOP SECRET 🕑 Infiltrate time travel seminar 🕵‍♂️ Take out Soviet spies 🔫 Use a gun ❌️ Don't laugh at the agenda 📃 It’s all theoretical 😕 Apart from *that* demo ✅️ Full government endorsement 👍 Nothing can go wrong 🇷🇺 💣 💥 ⬛️ Redacted #PosterPit #A #Q #SF #T

Cold War x Time Travel 🔫 High-stakes adventurism 🔫Time travel shenanigans 🔫 Stale beer espionage 🔫 Weird science 🔫 Cold War subterfuge 🔫 Working class hero 🔫 Hunter to hunted 🔫 Antagonist from the future 🔫 Enemy turned ally 🔫 Proles vs privilege #PosterPit #A #Q #SF #T

#posterpit #w #spf #t #a If you love the character development and grey morals of LeCarré novels but missed the women's voices and contemporary geopolitics, this book is for you 💪♀️🕵️‍♀️

THE SHAPES WE TAKE IN THE FIRE 🔥 ✌️dual pov/dual timeline 🌶️ open door slow burn 🎶 moody and lyrical ❤️ he falls first 🫂 touch starved 🌎 immigrant experience 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ MCs ✊🏼 BIPOC & minority voices #upmarketromance #amquerying #literaryromance #WriterSky #BookSky

THE HUNGER GAMES x TAMSYN MUIR To pursue her interests: swords & women, Dorian dresses as a man and joins a televised tournament to win the hand of a holy priestess. But when she stumbles on a plan to kill the priestess she must save the girl & escape the sentient labyrinth. #PosterPit #A #SF #F #W

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PSALM FOR THE WILD BUILT X SORRY TO BOTHER YOU When a down-on-his-luck archivist takes a job from a shady tech company to save his robot friend, he uncovers a darker plot involving stolen memories while falling for a handsome anarchist with a grudge against his employer. #PosterPit #Q #SF #SPF #A

CORPSE BRIDE × 50 FIRST DATES × WARM BODIES A bored immortal mortician resurrects the woman of his dreams—again and again. But love becomes obsession, and she's decaying faster than he can let go. #PosterPit #A #H #R #W

A plus-size baddie dog sits to survive after her breakup—then she meets a guy in the personal care aisle who’s everything her ex wasn’t: loyal, patient & in desperate need of a dog sitter…which might just ruin her plan to swear off love forever🐾💚 #PosterPit #A #R #CO #Q

#posterpit #h #r #t #satire #litfic #q #a

Rouge X Midsommar - Control becomes obsession - Pretty towns tend to rot - A Hearth that feeds on sacrifice - Not so sweet recipes - Breaking cycles or starting new ones? #Q #A #H #PosterPit

Ten years after family tragedy ended their relationship, she reconnects with her ex at a family wedding and confronts the difference between loving a person and yearning for nostalgia when her insecurities are tested. #posterpit #a #r #q

THE CINNAMON COVENANT / 108k New Adult Nautical Romantasy 🌊🏴‍☠️🩶🐈 ✔️ Once Upon a Broken Heart X Pirates of the Caribbean ✔️ Worldly, Con-Woman Heroine + Devoted, Virgin Hero ✔️ Twisted True Love Prophecy ✔️ Feminist Morally Grey Pirates ✔️ Teach Me Romance Dynamic + Spice #Q #NA #RF #F #R #PosterPit

🎃🏳️‍🌈 #LGBTQWriteAThon is back but make it spooky! 🏳️‍🌈🎃 Join us for a month of much needed fun! Prompts will be reposted daily to @queerwriters.bsky.social (turn on post notifications for a reminder!) Quote the post, use the tag, and make friends! #queerwriters #writesky #booksky #writingcommunity

#posterpit #q #spf #a CYBERPUNK VIKINGS MEET 1984 When forced remigration tore Sweden apart a group had enough and went Viking. A generation later Hillevi must face up to her family's legacy and navigate the politics of a world,where everyone pays a heavy price for survival.

They call her SCARella. She’s the only one who gives a damn about post-Collapse Manhattan’s disappearing girls. JESSICA JONES × ARCANE Some things don’t just break you. They remake you. 🔥 #PosterPit #A #DF #S #MYTHTECH

#PosterPit #Q #F #NA ❄️🥀GOLDSPINNER 🌲🪡 When her first love disappears, Wren must find and rescue him before the young, power-hungry king who’s set his sights on her decimates all she cares for. ❄️ fae domain of eternal winter 🥀 forbidden romance 🌲 royal court intrigue 🪡 fate based magic system

tw: fake blood and organs WE HARVEST THE CARNAGE 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 horror 🫀south asian rep x bi4bi 🫀vengeance, moral ambiguity, & guts galore #PosterPit #WIP #A #F #H

Connections Puzzle #1041 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Q5 Adult fantasy. I've seen a lot of people comp to this particular author, but this is the first time I've felt like the querier really *gets it,* and that has me excited. I don't see a lot in the query that points to that, but it's a solid QL. #RevPit #10Queries

When the spokesman of Aurum Industries dies and is brought back as one of the androids they sell, he must fight against the censorship software in his head to convince his wife that he's himself. Rough draft complete as of today! #ProfilePit #WIP #SF #R

Meet the leading ladies of my coven for my Witch WIP. When a man awakens an ancient evil, a coven of immortal witches, who came together after surviving various witch trials, must decide if they want to save the world or let it burn. #profilepit #F #H #A #WIP

Wordle 1,757 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

DRAG YOU DOWN is the story of a siren hunter who is forced to choose between the love she found and the family that made her after she's turned into one of the very creatures she hunted. #ProfilePit #Q #A #F

Mae never meant to take a life, only a name. Now, trapped in a space-bound program, she must survive deadly trials, fight alternate versions of herself, and keep her secret hidden. But Nexxus is watching. And reality itself unravels. #MENApit #A #SF #T #Qu #rivalstolovers

A cat is drowned by her owner. Reborn as a human-shaped godling, she competes to ascend to godhood for revenge—until she meets a godling who reveals personal things only her owner could've known. #MENApit #A #YA #F #H #DF #WIP #DIS #POC

#ProudBlue As I slowly return to getting back into the grind of the fight after having hip replacement surgery, clarity is starting to return: Where the fuck is Congress??

Just an update, I'm now rep'd by Chelsea Hensley at Mad Woman Lit! Mostly on Insta!

Trump just cut a midterm ad for every Democrat in America. bsky.app/profile/fact...

AITA for taking advantage of my sister’s kidnapping to go on an epic adventure? AKA the summary of the book I’m currently revising that is essentially a DND campaign, a classic adventure story, and the butchering of fairytales rolled into one. #Chaospit #F #LGBT #WIP #A

Have you ever wanted to combined REPO: THE GENETIC OPERA with PRETTY WOMAN but make it GAY? No. Obviously not. I did it anyway in my #WIP novella. #chaospit #A #R #SF

The Great Throuple in as few words as possible: Overthinker and girlfriend's secret third. #ChaosPit #A #R #Q

Trump: "I'm the only president that ever took a cognitive test. I took it 3 times. It's actually a very hard test for a lot of people. It wasn't hard for me. It starts off with an easy question and by the time you get to the middle it gets tougher." #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

I’m sorry but who are all these trans women that are winning against all the “biological women” athletes that we needed an Olympics ban? The most famous story is of a trans woman tying for FIFTH PLACE with a cis woman. This just seems like another form of misogyny tbh

People are getting uncomfortably romance-brained. In the query/blurb for my new #WIP I literally say the main guy is torturing the FMC, metaphorically r-wording her (mindr@pe) and also ACTUALLY wanting to SA her to get her pregnant and 3 separate people were like “ah, yes love interest vibes.” 1/4

Friends, you are doing yourself a great disservice if your query reads like a mini synopsis. Example: "This happens, followed by this, followed by this, etc."

Locke Lamora X ODW To save her sick sister, visually-impaired thief Nefeli agrees to a treasure hunt for a lost relic. As her sight declines with each use of magic, she must outwit dragons, powerful magic, and—worst of all—politicians before her world goes dark for good. #questpit #Q #A #F

Now #amquerying: LEARNING FOR YOU, the teaching/karaoke romance of my heart 💜 YOU BETWEEN THE LINES x KATHERINE CENTER When budget cuts threaten her district, new teacher Jules must compete with her annoying(ly handsome) rival to keep her dream job—and avoid falling for him. #QuestPit #A #R

ANATHEMA x THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH A fledgling vampire, tension between vampires and monster hunters, a realm of eternal night, a mysterious elven priest, and a sinister plot that threatens everything held dear. #questpit #W #DF #A #LGBT

TAMSYN MUIR x HUNGER GAMES x BACHELORETTE Pretending to be a man, Dorian enters a deadly tournament to kill the priestess whose magic is draining the planet & pursue her interests: swords & women. But in the labyrinth, the cameras aren't the only thing she must evade. #A #SF #F #LGBT #W #QuestPit

Kindred x Life on Mars A Muslim young man must grapple with generational trauma and the very real danger of racism and discrimination when he is thrown back in time to 1970s Britain from 2024. 🌙muslim mcs 🗡️murder mystery 🗣️1970s british racism deepdive #questpit #Q #YA #S #HF

Just stunning!!

Once Upon A Broken Heart x Daughter Of No Worlds x Dark Water Daughter Running to sea to escape her violent employer, Delphine never expected to fall for a pirate Captain - or to betray him to retrieve a legendary Stone & save her bff's life. #QuestPit #NA #RF #Q

It just sounds so beautiful and I want it nowwwww

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️ the songstress, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. six suspects. one the killer of renowned rock star sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you #questpit #Q #A #LF #MY

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