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GOTHIC BRIDGERTON (Winter 2027) When an unleashed magic brings the ghosts of Evermore castle back to life during their weeklong ball, sisters Annabel Lee & Lenore Evermore must unravel the truth behind their family’s curse before their castle becomes their tomb #questpit #ya #p #f

THE OVAL PORTRAIT x SJTR. When young brides go missing, psychometric witch Opal Scrywell agrees to team up with the boy who broke her heart—except the trail is leading to the man Opal has agreed to marry, an obsessive artist with ghosts of his own. #questpit #ya #f #ag

ONE DARK WINDOW x THE EXORCIST 👻 Rowena Trevayne believes herself to be haunted by the ghost of her husband’s first wife, except as bloodless bodies show up around the abbey she lives, she realizes Ligeia isn’t just haunting her—she wants her life. #questpit #na #df #ag

ONE DARK WINDOW X NOSFERATU 🩸 When symptoms of a deadly disease w/ vampiric origins manifest on Ligeia Mortem’s 21st birthday, she joins BLOOD & DEATH, a secret society searching for the key to immortality—except to defy death, one must first pay with blood #questpit #na #f #ag

🌊✨ I’M PUBLISHERS MARKETPLACE OFFICIAL 🌊✨ and I have a UK deal!! I am so thankful my Annabel Lee retelling featuring cursed sisters, ghostly suitors & a crumbling castle will be published by LBYR/Hachette US & Hachette Children’s/Hachette UK! 🌊👻 coming Winter ‘27!

I am ✨BEYOND ECSTATIC✨ to announce my Annabel Lee retelling featuring cursed sisters, ghostly suitors & a crumbling castle will be published by LBYR/Hachette US! 🌊👻 A MOST DECADENT CURSE will be published Winter ‘27!

GOTHIC BRIDGERTON x BELLADONNA x HOUSE OF SALT AND SORROWS 🌊👻 Annabel Lee & Lenore Evermore must uncover the truth behind their family’s curse when their castle’s ghosts are brought back to life during their weeklong ball—or risk joining them in their tomb by the sea #GhostPit #ya #f

Since I signed a ✨contract✨ the other day, here’s a snippet from my young adult Gothic fantasy retelling of Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee” 🌊👻 a story about grief, entrapment, & feelings powerless

ANNABEL LEE x GOTHIC BRIDGERTON. Annabel Lee & Lenore Evermore must uncover the truth behind their family’s curse when their castle’s ghosts are brought back to life during their weeklong ball—or risk joining them in their tomb by the sea. #questpit #ya #f #ag

THE OVAL PORTRAIT x THE RAVEN CYCLE X SJTR When young brides go missing, psychometric witch Opal Scrywell agrees to team up with the boy who broke her heart—except the trail is leading to the man Opal has agreed to marry, an obsessive artist with ghosts of his own. #questpit #ya #f #ag

ONE DARK WINDOW x THE EXORCIST x REBECCA 👻 Rowena Trevayne believes herself to be haunted by the ghost of her husband’s first wife, except as l bloodless bodies show up around the abbey she lives in, she realizes Ligeia isn’t just haunting her—she wants her life. #questpit #a #df #ag

ONE DARK WINDOW x NINTH HOUSE x NOSFERATU 🩸 When symptoms of a deadly disease w/ vampiric origins manifest on Ligeia Mortem’s 21st birthday, she joins BLOOD & DEATH, a secret society searching for the key to immortality—except to defy death, one must first pay with blood #questpit #a #df #ag

Introducing my vampiric dark academia Gothic fantasy reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “Ligeia” 🩸 (that’s a moth full 😂) feat. a vampiric disease, alchemy, questionable experiments in the search for immortality, the search for the elixir of life, a secret society, & more 🦇

Just posting about my haunted seaside Gothic fantasy retelling of Annabel Lee with a crumbling castle, haunted lighthouse, a weeklong ball, ghostly suitors & sisters with supernatural gifts 🌊 👻 #writerscommunity

Dropping by to post I wrote an Annabel Lee retelling with a weeklong ball, crumbling castle, haunted lighthouse, seaside & stormy atmosphere, ghostly suitors, a family curse & Gothic Bridgerton vibes👻 ⛈️ 🌊 🏰 🌙

🌊 GOTHIC BRIDGERTON x BELLADONNA x HOSAS X ANNABEL LEE 🌊 When an unleashed magic brings the ghosts of Evermore castle back to life during their weeklong ball, estranged sisters Annabel Lee & Lenore Evermore must unravel the truth behind their family’s curse before their castle becomes their tomb

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ANNABEL LEE x GOTHIC BRIDGERTON. Annabel Lee & Lenore Evermore must uncover the truth behind their family’s curse when their castle’s ghosts are brought back to life during their weeklong ball—or risk joining them in their tomb by the sea. #questpit #ya #f #ag

LIGEIA RETELLING Ligeia is dying, but when she’s invited to join a secret society, she is given a chance to change her fate by finding the elixir of life—except the key to immortality must be paid in blood, irrevocably changing her. #questpit #w

GOTHIC BRIDGERTON. When an unleashed magic brings the ghosts of Evermore castle back to life during their weeklong ball, estranged sisters Annabel Lee & Lenore Evermore must unravel the truth behind their family’s curse before their castle becomes their tomb #questpit #ag #ya #f

GOTHIC BRIDGERTON When an unleashed magic brings the ghosts of Evermore castle back to life during their weeklong ball, estranged sisters Annabel Lee & Lenore Evermore must unravel the truth behind their family’s curse before their castle becomes their tomb #questpit #ya #ag #f

Hi! I will be participating in #questpit if anyone would like a boost! I would love to connect with more of the writing community here! 🖤

🥳 NEW DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT 🥳 Congratulations to Isabel Sterling and look out for WITH ALL MY HAUNTED HEART, a sapphic paranormal romance about a witch hired to haunt a small-town B&B, only to find herself spellbound by her client, in Fall 2026!

THE THIRTEENTH CHILD x BELLADONNA. After waking from a coma to ghostly visions, Raven Chambers is sent to recover at her grandmother’s castle, only to become haunted by her family’s poisonous past, leading her to uncover their twisted secrets & their bargain w/ a corvid god #YouDeservepIt #ya #f #h

When ghost-hunter Blair's partner Georgie is brutally murdered mid-case, Blair takes the blame. Now a fugitive, she must team up with rival paranormal investigator Rowan to find and destroy the spirit that actually killed Georgie before it kills again. #YouDeservePit #WIP #A

To pay her own bride price, Princess Mira hunts for lost treasure—but to break the curse binding her to a vengeful pirate’s ghost, she must fall in love with a fisherman’s son. The problem? Her heart already belongs to another princess. 🧡🤍🩷 #YouDeservePit #YA #F #W #LGBT

A year after Savannah Weston’s fatal drowning, Dr. Ezra Weston finds himself falling for her doppelgänger. But when the same clues that proceeded his wife’s mysterious death start to reappear, he must prevent history from repeating itself—all while proving he’s not a murderer. #youdeservepit #A #WF

Poe’s THE OVAL PORTRAIT retelling Psychometric witch Opal agrees to team up with the man who broke her heart when young brides begin to turn up dead, a mysterious portrait the only evidence left behind—except the trail is leading to Opal’s art-obsessive fiancé. #YouDeservepIt #ya #wip #f

A grief-torn healer, bent on vengeance against the god who claimed all she loved in death and decay, uses her craft to infiltrate the god’s court—entangling with a haunted heir, plagued by fated dreams of her arrival, who will stop at nothing to unearth her purpose. #youdeservepit #wip #f #r #a

A Southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become. #YouDeservePit #Q #YA #H #T

WHIMBREL HOUSE x MARROWBONE SPELLS Blood is life. Bones are strength. Flesh is control. Skin is death. 🌹 A sapphic historical fantasy 🇫🇷 Set in France during the Belle Époque 🩸 A horrific magic system 🗡️ Family intrigue & power struggles 🗝️ Gothic vibes #YouDeservepIt #Q #A #F #HF #LGBT

If Evelyn doesn’t escape the gilded-age ghost ship carrying her to the afterlife, she’ll succumb to the gruesome spirits on board and haunt the ship for all time. But her murderer is on the ship, and this might be her last chance for revenge. #YouDeservePit #OS #A

THE POPPY WAR X SHADOW OF THE GODS🌋🧿 On a chain of Greek-inspired islands, Iro Zikos is spared by dying gods and granted the gold touch becoming a coveted weapon—just as the king of the largest isle dies, leaving a power vacuum and five ambitious families to fill it. #YouDeservepIt #F #A #Agented

AHS: Freakshow x The Night Circus A schizophrenic maghrebi acrobat accepts a job as a spy on a circus infamous for its Curiosities & a slew of unsolved murders. He must distinguish fact from falsity, as he negotiates Victorian Britain’s festering underbelly—& come out of it alive #YouDeservePit

OUABH X CASTLEVANIA NOCTURNE X READY OR NOT ♠️An Alice in Wonderlandesque débutante competition 👑in a Versailles palace ✨with whimsical balls, 🦇deadly vampires 🩸& something even deadlier brewing in the basement #youdeservepit #f #crossover #wip

GOTHIC BRIDGERTON When an unleashed magic brings the ghosts of Evermore castle back to life during their weeklong ball, estranged sisters Annabel Lee & Lenore Evermore must unravel the truth behind their family’s curse before their castle becomes their tomb #YouDeservepIt #ya #f

GOTHIC BRIDGERTON. When an unleashed magic brings the ghosts of Evermore castle back to life during their weeklong ball, estranged sisters Annabel Lee & Lenore Evermore must unravel the truth behind their family’s curse before their castle becomes their tomb. #P2Ppit #aw #f #ya

HUNGER GAMES × COBAB × POWERLESS Inspired by Central African mythology A boy with dangerous blood magic must compete in a deadly competition to save his mom's soul from the Underworld, but his growing love for the Prince threatens to destroy the kingdom #P2Ppit #YA #OS

THE WICKED DEEP x MIDNIGHT MASS A suspected witch makes a pact with the captain of the ghost ship terrorizing her pious coastal town to break the ship’s curse & clear her name—only the town’s cryptic pastor will stop at nothing to keep the curse unbroken. #P2Ppit #YA #F #Q 🏳️‍🌈

ASID x Agatha Christie Trapped in an abandoned poetry school, Bronte and 7 spellwriting poets are given a scrap of verse and a challenge: finish the poem or die. As the body count rises, Bronte races to unmask their killer before she's next. #P2Ppit #S (soon!) #YA #NA #F #MM #LGBT #Agented

NINTH HOUSE x Lucifer Cheating death is a dangerous business, but it's the only work Marian thinks she deserves. All she wants is to pay off her debt and be left alone, but Hell and its demons have other plans for the girl who got away. #P2Ppit #A #C #F #WIP

HOSAS x ASID. When an unleashed magic brings the ghosts of Evermore castle back to life during their weeklong ball, estranged sisters Annabel Lee & Lenore Evermore must unravel the truth behind their family’s curse before their castle becomes their tomb. #P2Ppit #aw #f #ya

Here’s a (late) #sundaysnippet from my Annabel Lee Retelling, which I lovingly refer as my Gothic Bridgerton story that comps to Erin A. Craig’s HOUSE OF SALT AND SORROWS, Adalyn Grace’s BELLADONNA and Ava Reid’s A STUDY IN DROWNING 🌊 👻 🏰 👗 🌙 ✨🕯️🖤