This sounds delicious! 😍

DON'T LET THE FOREST IN x BENT NECK LADY Simone's risking Jadriel's Life & Nina's Afterlife 🖤AWARD Best Submission SCBWI MayFest 2025 🖤WINNER WriteHive Mentorship 2025 🖤Big 5 Editor Requests GRIEF-RAGE-POWER Romance & Revenge A NEW URBAN LEGEND #TheEastRiverWraith #YA #S Feminist #H #R #QuestPit

OMG, this is FIRE!!! 🔥😍

For Fans of the Lyrical & Creeping Angst of DON'T LET THE FOREST IN 🖤AWARD for Best Submission SCBWI MayFest 2025 🖤WINNER Write Hive Mentorship 2025 🖤3 Big 5 Editor Requests 🖤Simone is Haunted & Hexed in THE TRUTH OF FEAR #Spec Upper #YA Crossover #NA Feminist Horror + Romance #S #H #R #QuestPit

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This curse doesn’t keep Simone from wanting to put her hands on Jadriel. Good and cruel gods *all* she wants is to touch him, even if it burns her from the inside out. But if she lets him kiss her, it'll kill him. Unless her cousin’s vengeful spirit ends him first. 👻 #GhostPit #YA #NA #SPEC #H #R

🖤Haunted & Hexed 🖤Touch Him & Burn 🖤Kiss Her & Die This curse doesn’t keep Simone from wanting to put her hands on Jadriel. Good and cruel gods *all* she wants is to touch him—even if it burns her from the inside out. But, if she lets him kiss her, it'll kill him. #PitDark #YA #NA #SPEC #H #R

You had me at Bent Neck Lady (that sounds sinister but I was obsessed with Haunting Of Hill House!!)

Like THE BENT NECK LADY: The Drowning Girl haunted Simone's dreams long before Nina was murdered She feared her cousin's spirit was stuck in a trauma loop, reliving her violent death—but one should never summon the dead Now they call her vengeful ghost #TheEastRiverWraith #GhostPit #YA #SPEC #H

When Simone dreamt of The Drowning Girl she didn’t know she was seeing her Cousin's murder. Now, They call her The East River Wraith. A vengeful ghost who drowns deserving boys—but Nina might take her rage out on the wrong boy. Bent Neck Lady X Don't Let The Forest In #PitDark #YA #Spec #H #LH

She’s beautiful in ALL her gore. Like Halloween past, dressed up as a little dead girl. Nina was cute & creepy & made me dress as something fiendish too—so we’d be scarier than all the ghouls Then maybe they wouldn’t notice us But they always do No matter what we’re wearing 👻 #GhostPit #YA #SPEC #H

Alma Katsu and Becky Spratford discuss the current popularity of horror. Loved the parts about diversity opening up the genre. The wider the range of voices, the more interesting and engaging horror becomes. ❤️ @almakatsu.bsky.social @raforall.bsky.social

Congratulations! 🎉 You are killing it!

✨Best Submission Award SCBWI MayFest✨ Simone is a seer Who is haunted and hexed If she touches Jadriel it burns But if he kisses her—Death will come for him *Unless her murdered cousin's spirit ends him before the curse can 🖤Feminist Horror with Romance & Revenge🖤 #YA #H #R #PosterPit #Q soon!

I Won an award!! ✨Best Submission at SCBWI MayFest 2025 for my manuscript excerpt The Truth of Fear ! ✨ Thank you @jolenehaley.bsky.social !!

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I had this form of lymes and it was horrific. I couldn’t breathe. Turns out my white blood cells (or red?) were being consumed by the parasite. Left unchecked=death. Luckily I went to the docs: who Told me I was just dehydrated, but I said oh I had a tick-only days ago. Other lymes shows up later.

That pitch card though . . . ! 👀 Talk about forbidden love!

Gorgeousssss Oh I know this is gonna be snatched up so soon, I can’t wait to see this one shelves 🤩🥰

🖤HAUNTED & HEXED 🖤TOUCH HIM & BURN 🖤KISS HER & DIE When the whispers of the spell become screams… Death Will Come ✔️2 Big 5 Editor Requests ✔️10 Literary Agent Full Requests *RN* ✔️Winner WriteHive Mentorship 2025 ✔️Revised & Soon to be #amquerying #AgentsGuide #EditorsGuide #QuestPit #YA #H #R #Q

May 7th! #questpit Who’s in!?

🖤HAUNTED & HEXED🖤 When Simone touches Jadriel it burns But if he kisses her—Death will come for him *Unless her murdered cousin's traumatized spirit ends him before the curse can. 🖤 Speculative Feminist Horror with Romance & Revenge🖤 👻A New Urban Legend👻 #YA #H #R #PosterPit #Q #posterpitq

Let’s swap support #posterpit

The creeping literary romantic woe of DON’T LET THE FOREST IN x the rage of BAD WITCH BURNING This haunted & hexed Speculative Feminist Horror is being revised with my @writehive.bsky.social mentor Rebecca Angus at Howland Literary 2 Big Five Editor requests & 23 agent requests #bluepit

The literary feel & longing angst of DON’T LET THE FOREST IN X SHE IS A HAUNTING 17 yo Simone is Haunted & Hexed But she’s desperate to hold on to the bi boy she’s cursed to be the death of & won’t let go of Cousin Nina’s increasingly malevolent spirit. 🖤THE TRUTH OF FEAR🖤 #YA #H #R #Q #P2Ppit

A grieving, pansexual teen girl comes back to her haunted home & steals a second chance with the bi boy she’s cursed to kill *if* she kisses him again💀 & is desperate to hold on to her murdered cousin’s traumatized spirit, who’s threatening to end him before the hex can. 👻 #h #ya #YouDeservepIt

Harper Collins did not sign. So weird how being owned by Rupert Murdoch means they can't even advocate for their own survival. Libraries are a HUGE part of all publishers' bottom lines. If you can't speak out bc it's right, speak out bc otherwise this destroys your bottom line ffs

When the familiar emptiness gnawed, a lack Syrala could not fill, she painted. Her grandmother taught her: Seek solitude and focus on your art. Allow space for emptiness, and listen. It will help. For now. #1stlinepit #A #F #Q #agentguide #agentsguide

"A gaunt mouse nibbled greedily at a stale bread roll left on my lunch tray. I didn’t have the heart to give her a name as I might lose her too. The lingering scent of mud and mildew hung in the air, a long-forgotten tomb." #1stLinePit #Q #YA #F #T #WritingCommunity

It was so much easier to steal when l worked alone. #1stLinePit #YA #D #SF #T #AgentsGuide

William Gibson x Holly Black Fae Queens' War Book 0 : Legend of the Bard Life wasn’t a song. Even the bloodiest song of vengeance and betrayal had the beauty of its tune. Life was a copper clip dreadful: cheap, gory, and lewd. #1stLinePit #A #F #SF #Vague

Do you dare attempt the slow-burn gothic horror escape room? Exprience the 💀 mystery in a cursed 🏚️ reading a 📖 that ruins your life while the manor is 👁️ (and judging). Ghosts👻? Curses🕯️? Plenty. Come for the💍ultimatum, stay because you're damned. #ChaosPit #Q #A #H #AmQuerying #Writesky #Writers

The Fork in the Road: "I've lost Bette’s scent. I close my eyes to focus and adapt. My nose itches as it flattens, tan fur growing over the skin and scratching my browbone. It’s dark and the street’s quiet; no one will see the change. " #1stLinePit #WIP #A #F #UF #writingcommunity

It’s said my mother used her last breaths to tell my father I came into the world feet first, as though I was already prepared to run. #1stLinePit #WIP #A #F #HF

"The silver camera hunts me down, red power light burning like my father's anger." WALLBREAKER - 90K #1stLinePit #Q #A #SF #CMe

"Marriage was a fine thing. A very fine thing indeed, one that most proper young women in England might strive to achieve. It was also, however, just the sort of thing Celine Wycliff knew would never find her." - A SEASON OF PROMISE #1stLinePit #WIP #A #HR #LGBTQIA

"Shayne always said I was terrible at sneaking around." #1stLinePit #Q #NA #F #R

“Nothing is crueler than the hunger gnawing at my bones." #RF #Q #A #OS #CMe #agentguide #agentsguide #1stLinePit

"Bright droplets of red bloomed against the crisp, white layer of fresh snow. A trail, unbeknownst to my victim, that would be his demise." 👻 PR w/ body horror 🇰🇷 Inspired by Korean folklore 🌦 Set in the PNW #1stLinePit #A #P #R #H #WIP

Purple stained the lips of the girl paled by death. As if she had taken a sumptuous bite of a delectable fruit before drowning. 𝒶𝒹𝓊𝓁𝓉 𝓂𝒾𝒹𝓌𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝒻𝑜𝓁𝓀 𝒽𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓇 🍂 #1stLinePit #WIP #A #H 🍂

I’m terrified I’ve already become a fallen child star—burnt out before my eighteenth birthday. Until the call. #AgentsGuide for PLAY TO MY HEART in reply to this post. #1stLinePit #Q #YA #R #LF #CON #amquerying

🌶️HEARTLESS x ✈️KILT TRIP x 🖋️C Fortune "In ‘97 Berlin, a sensible French student’s plan to learn German leads to a sizzling romance with her reluctant host. The devastating catch? She can't st—" You know what? I’ll let beta readers do the talking… #PopUpPitA #PopUpPit #LuckyPit 🍀 #A #R

#1stLinePit 💙📚🪐 Yet, by secret ways and underground seas, the men of the outer world came and settled. In their Shadows - The Buried Giant X The Ritual X The Left Hand of Darkness - Gothic Upmarket - 70k Words - Slow-burn - Set in mythic 7th century - Very Romantic, deeply unromantic #F #H #Q

Dolphins have more in common with humans than most of us realize. Their social structure is complex; they travel in tight-knit groups—called pods—but they form other relationships outside of them. #1stLinePit #WIP #A #R #CON 👇 Blurb, small Josie & Will profile, continued opening.

The smoke rises like a phantom snake, stirring around the white ceiling tiles before disappearing into thin air. A woman inherits two portraits, and is haunted by a specter guiding her closer to the truth--hidden behind the walls of a sanatorium in the woods. #1stLinePit #Q #A #H #S

"Fuck me, Troy." “That’s a bit inappropriate, Dave, considering the situation.” #1stlinepit #A co(s)mic #Horror #WIP Query ready this summer at approx. 75k words!

#1stlinepit #YA #F #LGBT #WIP

When she hears the footsteps behind her, she doesn't rise from the lounger or turn her head. Just rolls her eyes and takes another gulp of wine. 'I told you to leave,' she slurs. 'There's nothing more to say.' 'I've plenty to say.' Her head whips round then. She smiles. #1stLinePit #Q #A #R #S

I have a very important question to ask you, but it has to stay between us. Have you ever felt something stirring inside of you? Kind of like a buzzing in your chest. Sometimes faint. Other times strong. And never completely gone. #1stLinePit #MG #F #OWN #Q #LGBT

Mick Martin was halfway through writing the words “coq au vin” when an eight-foot-tall rock golem rampaged after a rooster down the street just beyond the terrace of his family’s café. #1stLinePit #WIP #NA #F #R