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📚🩸Meet the Author🩸📚 I write horror-tinged stories that blend:  💀 selfish & messy final girls  🏚️ creepy, inescapable settings  🔪 slow-burn dread with visceral payoffs #amquerying #writingcommunity #agentsguide

Shelving my dead (also bad) querying novel leave me feeling like #WritingCommunity

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if anyone ever tells you that you should cut a scene you really like because it doesn’t add to the plot, you have my permission to say that you need to include it because i told you you have to

At a crossroads of what to do about my writing career (lol, career) and I'm just, spinning like a top #WritingCommunity

The beautiful model on @gothicbeautymag.bsky.social #57 reminded me so much of Marika from Bunika 🇸🇰 So I created this fictional 18th C 'Slovak Beauty' cover which DOES feature her! [I contacted the magazine with no response, oh well:)] This is a creative tribute, no commercial intent! 1/2

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A burned-out jazz pianist seeking refuge at a seaside inn is drawn into the orbit of a brilliant painter whose work doesn’t just capture his subjects—it devours them. And now she's caught in his frame. Art by the lovely saranillustration #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #A

My #agentsguide to CARELESS WHISPERS, a romantic suspense set on a Greek island. REBECCA x RIVIERA x THE PERFECT COUPLE The woman knew secrets; now she's dead. Everyone has a motive... Secrets, Slow❤️‍🔥, Unrequited love, Betrayal, Murder Longlisted for Joffe Books Prize 2024 #LuckyPit 🍀 #PopUpPitA

My new #agentsguide for To Ruin the Sky⚡️ Expect: 🫢Your new tatted-up, morally-grey book bf 💁🏻‍♀️Shadow Mommy FMC - rivals Faith from Buffy 🪞One big metaphor for identity ✨Good vs evil reimagined 🔥Enemies AND lovers 👍🏼Middle Eastern Rep #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #RF #PopUpPit #writersky

She’s a hopeless romantic. He’s a grump discontented with life. Maybe chasing after an urban legend will get them what they want, if what they want is: 🌕 Midnight rendezvous 🌓 Monstrous vampires 🌒 Scheming gangs & shady detectives 🌑 The secret to controlling it all #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #A #F

ARCANE x BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN All Jim owns when he arrives at the Institute is a battered briefcase & a pair of decaying boots. Little does he know that before classes end, he'll pack that blood-drenched briefcase to flee a nightmare of his own making. #PopUpPitA #A #F #LuckyPit #writing 💙📚

My new pitch card for the sapphic gothic horror novel I #amquerying With the economy crumbling and inequality skyrocketing, what can be more pertinent than a story about proverbially eating the rich 😁❤️ #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #adult #horror #gothic

1872 London. Agnes is a spirit-medium aching for meaningful work, better pay, and a soulmate. When an invitation arrives to visit a grand estate and banish a spirit haunting it, Agnes cannot resist. The adventure, however, turns into a nightmare #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #horror #gothic #lgbtqi

ADDIE LARUE x VELVET WAS THE NIGHT A hopeless romantic drags a grumpy college student with her to chase after an urban legend, and the rest is… A nightmare of scary men and shady gangs and bloodthirsty vampires. Well, this certainly isn’t the romcom she had in mind. #LuckyPit #PopupPitA #A #F

72 hours. 3 trials. 1 chance to find her bff. 🌲🔪⌛🩸✨ Tate enters a reality tv show knowing viewers crave blood, but if she can’t outplay their expectations—or her ruthless handler—she’ll lose more than just her life, she’ll bring everyone down w/her. #luckypit #popuppita #ya #sff #genreblend

SOMETHING MORE x TOMORROW (x3) To win a $100k coding competition, Mia Pan teams up with an autistic coding prodigy, who she’s crushing hard on. But falling for him makes her wonder: is she autistic too? #YA #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA

WHEN YOU GET THE CHANCE X MATILDA X TODAY TONIGHT TOMORROW 🎭 I always loved musicals so I joined my school's production of Legally Blonde. 👩🏻‍🏫 Except the director is a nightmare 👧🏻 Who loves to degrade me 😭 Is it worth giving up my dream? Find out in Undesired Spotlight! #LuckyPit #YA #Con #PopUpPitA

An #agentguide for my #amquerying novel, SHRIKE'S EYRIE, a sapphic gothic horrormance set in Victorian England. When an impressionable young spirit-medium is hired to exorcize an evil spirit, the real question is what could possibly go right. #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #horror #gothic #lgbtqi

When a fiery maid ran to sea to escape her violent employer, she never expected a passionate romance with a pirate captain–or needing to hunt down a legendary map to save her best friend's life. Once Upon A Broken Heart 💕meets Outlander 🗡️ The Siren’s Call 🏴‍☠️ (series potential) #LuckyPit #PopUpPit

THIS IS REAL, ISABEL BENES ready for #PopUpPit! (+Big 5 editor interest!) 💗Two gifted kids, now adults, falling apart… and in love? 🏠 Forced proximity 🔥 Rivals to Lovers & Slowburn 🌞 Small-town charm & summer vibes 🌸 OwnVoices Latinx, anxiety, vitiligo, & celiac disease #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #A

ADDIE LARUE x TVD - vampires hiding their fangs - a lost god searching for identity - power-hungry gangs and dubious detectives - morally grey protagonist - regretting (?) what you wished for - realising what you truly are - in the speculative underbelly of Taipei #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #A #F

Pitch card for 🧵PULL THE THREAD🧵, my #amquerying novel. ✨ There are little rebellions everywhere...✨ 🔴 platonic soulmates 🔴 OCD and ace rep 🔴 horror and fantastical elements 🔴 reality tv plot 🔴 subtle social commentary #YA #dystopian #sff #q

1872 London. Agnes is a spirit-medium aching for meaningful work, better pay, and a soulmate. When an invitation arrives to visit a grand estate and banish a spirit haunting it, Agnes cannot resist. The adventure, however, turns into a nightmare #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #horror #gothic #lgbtqi

ARCANE x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN 🧑‍🎓A cut-throat postgrad academia w/ ⚛️engineer magic 🤌obsessive yearning 🚨unreliable narrator 📻corrupted magic tech 🩺medical ethics & consent 🩻body horror 🏆dangerous magic duels 🛠️blacksmith biceps 🌿strange plants 👤& the strange man who ❤️s 'em #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #A #F

SOMETHING MORE x TOMORROW (x3) When 16yo Mia Pan learns her mom can't afford rent, she must win a $100k coding competition to stay in NYC—her childhood home—while navigating feelings for her autistic teammate and wondering if she's autistic herself. #YA #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA

Orkney, 1909: Twenty-five years ago, men made history. Now, one woman will change it… 🔥 Feminine rage 🪢 Twisty plot 🌊 Atmospheric setting 🧜‍♀️ Fading folklore ❤️‍🔥 Vengeance and redemption 💫 Chronic illness rep (own voices) #PopUpPit #LuckyPit #A #H

Here We Go Again x It's a Sin Whilst honouring his uncle's dying wish to reunite six drag queen activists, a young gay man hears the truth about his adoptive mother. With her past about to impact his future, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy or the woman who raised him. #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit

Squid Gamex1984 To find her bestie, Tate lies her way onto the Trinity Trials—televised games in which viewers decide all: magic players are 💉 with, the hunter, &each twist. She must survive not only the games+the hunter but other desperate players who play by their own rules. #popuppita #luckypit

When exorcising ghosts, it helps to have a medium with a cool head and sympathetic heart. Instead, we get unlikable, snarky Constance. In a blend of horror/comedy that gets darker as it goes, traveling ghost hunters get in too deep when the dead won’t RIP. #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #a #uf #h #spec

My new pitch card for the sapphic gothic horror novel I #amquerying With the economy crumbling and inequality skyrocketing, what can be more pertinent than a story about proverbially eating the rich 😁❤️ #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #adult #horror #gothic

If I were a ghost, I would haunt myself. Sounds about right. #horrorcommunity #horrorwriters

Amazing things happening to language and meaning over at @theguardian.com

Testing a new bit of visuals for promoting my querying novel, a pitch card as the kids call them. Whaddaya think? #WritingCommunity #agentsguide #agentguide #amquerying

jimbook pitch card ft. everyone's favourite morally ambiguous botanist #amquerying #A #F #SFF #booksky #writing #writingcommunity

And submitted my querying manuscript for #revpit Perhaps they can help me fix what isn't working, so pray 4 me #WritingCommunity

On top of my book slowly bleeding to death in the querying trenches, today I got a rejection on my PhD funding application #WritingCommunity #academia

I wish I could think clearly for more than 2 minutes, to have the energy to do more than 2 simple tasks a day, to have one night of refreshing sleep. Much to ask for I guess

Wrote nearly 4k words yesterday and completed a short story in one sitting! Thus (hopefully) bringing my months long writing slump to an end!! 🥳 #WritingCommunity

Perhaps we could profit from taking a leaf out of the suffragettes' book...

Now that the editors have been introduced, it's time to properly roll up my sleeves with my #RevPit submissions. Pray 4 me #WritingCommunity

After the craziest three weeks ever, l'm ecstatic to announce that I'm now represented by @literaryfey.bsky.social of @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social! From the time she noticed my pitch right up to her offer, l've been blown away by her enthusiasm for Phoenix Bones!

I see fellow writers get agent interest, lots of interest even, on their agent guides. And then I wonder if I should rework mine. Then I think about four months of querying with next to zero interest and think why bother. Really don't know what to do at this point. #WritingCommunity

To celebrate finishing my revisions, my INCREDIBLE mentor @rachelkitch.bsky.social designed the cover, typeset & printed a personal copy of the Jimbook for me?! A dream come true to hold my writing in my hands with my art on the cover! 🥹🥰 #writingcommunity #amquerying #booksky #writesky