Happy New Year! #editors, A STRANGER KIND OF MORTUARY SCIENCE is a 97 K cozy, adult fantasy novel mixing whimsy with the macabre, soft fairytale elements, and found family. Perfect for lovers of the strange, magical, enchanting, & gothic! #onsubmission #cozyfantasy #onsub

Starting the New Year off the same way I did last year-editing a manuscript ✨ here’s to a fun and productive writing year ☺️ Need something to distract me now that Stranger Things is over 🥹 #drafting #editing #HappyNewYear2026

Lana kills bad people. It’s efficient, satisfying, and–let’s be honest–deeply therapeutic. Nic also kills bad people. But blood makes him queasy, so he's forced to get creative... #moodboard #editors #darkromcom #bookpitch #onsubmission

I love it when vampires are women who love women

Happy winter solstice! Season’s Greetings from the Wembley Funeral Parlor & Cremation staff ❄️🎄A STRANGER KIND OF MORTUARY SCIENCE is currently on submission to editors! #cozyfantasy #onsubmission #winterwhimsy

Made this for Instagram, and thought I would post a little bit here! No matter what happens, I’m so proud of this cozy, macabre story and all the progress this year! It’s been wonderful connecting with so many amazing writers and the writing community 🫶🏻

When you had too much fun and put an itty bitty crossover scene in your current WIP rough draft, but now you’re editing and things are getting serious so you have to take it out and file it away to *hopefully* be used later 🥹 #roughdrafts #editing

Thought I would jump on this trend even though I’m super late! #unfortunatelyIdolove #cozyfantasywriter #funeraldirector #embalmer

Give Diane your vote - her book is great!

Japanese-American teen Misa navigates abuse at the hands of a deceased family friend, risking her family's clean image in their culturally insular community—where silence is conformity—if she speaks up 🎌Immigrant story 🌸Coming of age 🫂Family tension ❤️First love #QuestPit #YA #OWN #Q #agentguide

Maisie speaks to dead people, almost exclusively. Living people terrify her. Stacy, biologist by trade and skeptic by nature, knows better than to trust anyone but herself. But when a blood-drained body is found in Foggy Dell, they’ll have to work together to unravel the truth. #QuestPit #Q #PR

SONG OF THE SIX REALMS x YOU A courtesan with no emotions ventures to an immortal’s palace to heal her broken soul—but the palace is hiding seven imprisoned women, and they all look exactly like her. 🔥Soul dualism 🔥Obsession/entitlement 🔥Self-destruction #questpit #AG #F #W

🤓Nerdy rock collector 🌎A society deep in the earth ✨Dream fueled magic 👾Ancient life-sucking monsters closing in 🤫All tangled around a terrible secret #QuestPit #YA #Fantasy #Q

THE LIGHTHOUSE + BLOOD IN THE BAYOU Callum Point, a queer transman moves to a dead-end fishing town only to find it full of semi-mad townsfolk, monstrous fish, and an ever-present fog that whispers to him. #QuestPit #Q #A #H

THE GOTH GIRL WHO SAVED THE WORLD Witchy 1980s high school adventure: A goth music-obsessed teen unearths a secret coven’s plot to summon a demon king, Charlotte risks her life to save the people she loves, even as confronts uncomfortable truths about them. #questpit #Q #YA #F

PJO XTrumanShow Being the gods' pawn isn’t new to 15y/o Mia Miller, an anxious girl w/ music magic. But when a quest to Nashville is derailed by a book where she’s the MC, Mia & BFF must find the author & salvage her quest, before Olympus finds out. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F

HELP! I'm pretending to be my sister at a summer wilderness internship. But her rival is SO HOT and I kind of want to kiss them. (It's giving Simon Snow v. Baz) #QuestPit #NA #R #OS

He's the only thing standing between college students and certain death. Unfortunately, teen monster hunter Daniel is responsible for more civilian deaths than monster kills, and unless he can find the key to a power he doesn't believe in, his new friends will pay the price... #QuestPit #YA #Q #UF

When a lonely stained-glass artist is invited to restore a set of windows depicting the haunting story of Tristram and Isolde, he must reassemble the fractured pieces of his memory before his own budding romance ends in tragedy. #questpit #A #G #T #Q

The Gumdrop Getaway 🍬 🎄 After winning Red Carpet Moment, fashion designer Sandy Cane is plumb out of luck until she lands the opportunity to design a dress for movie star Ginger Dash. Sandy is living the dream… until the dress goes missing on the night of the movie premiere. #QuestPit #MY #A #W

#editors, A STRANGER KIND OF MORTUARY SCIENCE is a 97K cozy, adult fantasy novel mixing whimsy with the macabre, soft fairytale elements, and found family. Perfect for lovers of the strange, magical, enchanting, & gothic! #questpit #F #A #OS #LGBT #agented

Just found out I made the 2025 Gertrude Warner Long List for Middle Grade Fiction (as did a friend of mine) 📚 very exciting in the midst of waiting to hear back from queries. Now we wait to see if I’ll make the short list 👀

It’s always so fun when writer friends ask me to beta read and edit scenes related to my profession. Can’t wait to dive into a formaldehyde related scene for a friend this week! I love to help fact check ☺️

New guide for A FATE WOVEN IN STARLIGHT!✨ A Cowherd & Weaver-inspired romantic fantasy about fate, storytelling, love, and freedom. 🕊️Star-crossed lovers (HFN) 🕊️Myth retelling 🕊️Diverse world // 3 realms 🕊️Hell quest Rep: Alex Land at MWLA✨ #editorguide #readerguide

The rough draft of my spooky, cozy fantasy WIP is completed at 65 K! Now, onto editing it into drafts 1 & 1.5 in November, with a target word count of 85 K after revisions and rewrites before draft 2 😅 #drafting #writerlife #dyslexicgirlie #timetoedit #roughdrafts

I shared a sketch version of this yesterday, but today is Halloween! So here's the full B&W drawing of THE GOTH GIRL WHO SAVED THE WORLD, my witchy YA Contemporary Fantasy WIP. @emilystmarie.bsky.social did an amazing job! #amquerying

🌊✨ 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!

QUEER NANCY DREW Welcome to the Halloween party you'll never forget. It will make you question everything you've ever known. Did your sapphic crush, your boss, or your ex kill your arch nemesis? And who poisoned the chili? Oh, and don't forget your costume... 👻 #Ghostpit #YA #Q #MY #LGBT #OWN

Gorgon and Gallows 🧪🕯️👀 Poppy Gorgon and Gemma Gallows are perfectly normal twelve-year-olds who assist their fathers in a perfectly normal family candle shop.... except the candle shop is a cover for a dark artifact business hiding a powerful secret. #GhostPit #MG #F #Q

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

Epic Grimdark meets Romantasy in The Land of Undying Summer Forced to work together, a half-dead priestess and a wandering mage develop a reluctant camaraderie. That is, until he triggers an uprising that leaves her to choose between saving either the living or the dead #F #R #FR #GhostPit #Agented

An unorthodox mortician unknowingly accepts a position at a funeral parlor for the otherworldly, and must confront the true nature of her relationship with death to save her newfound family of monstrous outcasts when a scheming faerie king threatens their home 👻 #GhostPit #A #F #OS #LGBT #agented

THE GOTH GIRL WHO SAVED THE WORLD These Witches Don’t Burn X Pudge &Prejudice X The Cure After discovering a sinister coven's spell, music-obsessed teen Charlotte risks her life to save the people she loves, even as learns uncomfortable truths about them. #GhostPit #YA #F

QUEER NANCY DREW 17-yr-old Emmie has the coolest job ever at the indie bookstore with her crush, but when a patron dies during her mom’s book event, all eyes are turned towards her. She needs to get her life back & not get killed in the process. 👻 #Ghostpit #YA #Q #MY #LGBT #OWN

A little snippet from my #wip KILL ME MAYBE – a dark rom-com where depressed Heather accidentally falls for serial-killer-in-the-making Finn 🔪💕 #GhostPit #R #T #NA LIGHTS OUT x BUTCHER & BLACKBIRD 90k (est.)

DREDGE + OLD WOUNDS Callum Point, a queer transman, moves to a dead-end fishing town only to find it full of semi-mad townsfolk, monstrous fish, and an ever-present fog that whispers to him. 🐟FROM THE SEA FRET🐟 #GhostPit #A #H #Q #LGBT #OWN

When a lonely stained-glass artist is invited to restore a set of windows depicting the haunting story of Tristram and Isolde, he must reassemble the fractured pieces of his memory before a malevolent creeper destroys his last chance at love. 👻 #GhostPit #A #G #T #Q

WHEN THE MOON HATCHED X HEARTLESS HUNTER 🗡️ Mercenary Princess 🥀 Forbidden magic 🗡️ Saving the World 🥀 Romantic subplot 🗡️ Found family vs birth family 🥀 Animal companion 🗡️ Friends with benefits 🥀 Epic Battles #ghostpit #A #F #Q

BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag. #GhostPit #A #DS #SF #W

THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH X THE FOXGLOVE KING Time and Time Again. In a gothic world of haunted seas and long-lost monsters, a queer ship navigator takes one last voyage—only to discover he’s not just mapping the sea but retracing the paths of a past life. #GhostPit #A #Q #F #PN #LGBT #G

👻 An unorthodox mortician unknowingly accepts a position at a funeral parlor for the otherworldly, and must confront the true nature of her relationship with death to save her newfound family of monstrous outcasts when a scheming faerie king threatens their home *Agented* #GhostPit #A #F #OS #LGBT

VIGILANTES ANONYMOUS is a dark romcom that follows two contract killers, Lana and Nic, as they off their targets and get off with each other 🖤🔪💋 📝 therapy meet cute 📍Milwaukee 💥 he's unapologetically obsessed with superheroes 📚 she works in a bookstore filled with cats #GhostPit #A #OS #R

Here are the updated hashtags for #GhostPit on October 30th! Rules are linked in the comments.

We’re officially on submission to editors this spooky season! With Halloween just around the corner, I had to drop some elements and atmosphere for this project since a large portion of the book is set during the fall season! 🎃🍁🍂 #onsubnow #cozyfantasy #funeraldirector #embalmer

Such a fun Sunday at the Fall Boozy Book Fest in Des Moines, IA! Great getting to meet some Midwest and Omaha writers ☺️ so many wonderful local shops and vendors!

Morticia is the best writing buddy ever (when she isn’t jumping on the back of my office chair and attacking me mid sentence 😂) Loves to be a diva this one!

TOMORROW!! Who's ready to enter to win? Take the opportunity to get feedback. Even if you don't win, you'll be able to see feedback and tips from our experienced editors on querying and starting off your story strong! #writingcommunity #10Queries #RevPit #amquerying #writersky

My coworker surprised me with this Barbie gem today since I love pink in the prep room! Would do anything for an embalmer Barbie one of these days!! 👀

A STRANGER KIND OF MORTUARY SCIENCE ✨elements include: 🍄 Found family 🌲 cozy, atmospheric small town 🍂 Spooky, whimsical vibes 🗡️ If I touch her, she could die 🪦 funeral parlor & embalming room settings 🧪 FMC is a woman in STEM 🌈 queer MCs 🧡 Characters in their 30s & 40s Soon to be on sub!