Just found out I will be giving our commencement speech in January! Two and a half years in the MFA program, one completed novel, and a thousand memories-I hope to do it justice ❤️

If you liked Hunger Games Erik you're gunna love NaNo Erik

I know there a strong views about prologues, but what about jumping straight into action? My view is mostly from a fantasy lens, but curious what thoughts would be. #writingcommunity

Half Sick of Shadows is a gothic where horror never comes from characters' identities. Modern audience shouldn't find diversity scary! Instead, horror comes from the wealth inequality, environmental issues, & medical field hurdles of the 19th cent that remain relevant today. #DVPit #H #A #DIS #LGBT

Thank you for such a fun day! I always love getting to see what everyone is working on and what I should keep my eyes out for 👀

To destroy the death cult that killed her, Ginevra must first survive the body they’d see unmade. But when a woman from her past begins to recognize her, she learns that vengeance and love demand the same thing: truth. #DVpit #CI #A #DF #LGBT

LUCY UNDYING X FOR THE WOLF Inspired by FRANKENSTEIN Murdered by a death cult, remade as a weapon with thorns for teeth and calris veins as veins—Ginevra must decide if she’s their savior, their monster, or something else entirely. #DVpit #A #df #lgbt+ #q

Thesis? ✔️ Sent off my Fulls and Partials? ✔️ finally time to read and work on my poison wip and ya wip! #writingcommunity

#SFFChat A1: Horror is the fourth pillar of speculative fiction after SFF and magical realism. You can't dissociate them. Look at Alien. Hellraiser. The Shining. Dark City. Event Horizon. Modern horror and sci-fi AND fantasy all owe a debt to Frankenstein.

This month, I submit my thesis for my MFA program, sent some fulls out, and queried agents I never thought I would be "good enough" for. Yes, it's also a stressful time, but I am so excited to see what the future holds. #amquerying #WritingCommunity

Two #pitchdis requests! There is something about someone wanting to read more, knowing that you deal with chronic illness, that really warms the heart ❤️

#PosterPit #Q #F #M #H The Ravens x Buffy 📚 A prestigious college 🌊 in a seaside town 💀🩸w/ a blood-soaked past 👩🏽‍💻where a law school student is eager to solve a deadly mystery 🎸 & a rock star is desperate to protect his career 🔪 a sadistic killer stalks his prey, 👹 while monsters lurk in the shadows

LUCY UNDYING X FOR THE WOLF Inspired by FRANKENSTEIN Murdered by a cult, remade as a weapon—she must decide if she’s their savior, their monster, or something else entirely. #PosterPit #PosterPitQ #Q #DF #F #A

DUNE X THE LIBRARY AT MT.CHAR In a city of psychics under constant duress, those born with lethal abilities are drafted into the Guild sworn to protect their home. Even if this means turning them into monsters... Now, visions of Strangers threaten to bring them ruin. #PosterPit #Q #A #F

New #agentsguide for the novel I #amquerying. If you loved "Every Summer After" then this is for you! 🗻 lake house setting in summer and winter 🥂 soapy family drama 💔 healing or reopening old wounds? 📸 yearning for nostalgia

From the creators of ARCANE x FMA x CRIERS WAR 🦾metal-based magic system 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨queer romance 😱anxiety rep 💀anti-colonialism 🤖the dangers of propaganda #PosterPit #YA #LGBT #SF #SFF

Raised by corporate vampires with little freedom or choice, Alex is used to Yakuza business rivals and back-alley deals. But nothing prepares him for Jason, a witty bartender who challenges everything he knows, and who harbors secrets as deadly as the vampires after him. #PosterPit #Q #R #A #writing

THE PIRATE, THE PRINCESS, AND JOHN is now in query inboxes near you ✨ #PosterPit #YA #F #LGBT #Q #amquerying

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡 the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you #posterpit #q #a #lf #m

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written campaign. #PosterPitQ #A #H #M #Posterpit

Hi #PosterPit! If you're interested in a dark, modern-day Korean folklore and myth reimagining, layered with quiet, intimate dread and character-driven storytelling, then check this out: #Q #H #R #A

Four werewolves. Three months. Two full moons. One chance to save a life. Can love even exist amid such corruption? Coming soon: EYES SHINE SILVER IN MOONLIGHT, a werewolf romantasy that forces a choice between duty and desire. #PosterPit #PosterPitW #R #F #A

A #NA dual-POV #F #R where These Violent Delights meets Arcane. Featuring: 🥀 A firebrand FMC from the slums 🥀A gilded MMC with blood on his hands 🥀 Class war meets monster horror 🥀 Fated mates with a twist 🥀 He'd do anything for her 🥀2 publishers interested / 10 manuscript requests. #PosterPit #Q

Professor Hark is sent to a prestigious school that trains the best adventurers in the kingdom. His mission from the Bureau: secretly audit the professors there. What he doesn't expect is oddball colleagues and students who finally give him a home. #PosterPit #W #AG #F #A #Cozy

The nursery rhyme The Farmer in the Dell haunts Emily—but the final verse, “the cheese stands alone,” is no rhyme. When her best friend’s illness turns terminal, Emily has days to uncover a truth that could destroy her marriage, child, & the life she’s built around saving Lacey. #posterpit #Q #A

LUCY UNDYING X FOR THE WOLF Inspired by FRANKENSTEIN Murdered by a cult, remade as a weapon—she must decide if she’s their savior, their monster, or something else entirely. #PosterPit #PosterPitQ #Q #DF #F #A

#QueerPit a transfemme, plant-killer garden witch works with a rival music witch to supply magic to an ancient flower for three months. after an autistic meltdown turns the flower sentient, garden witch must learn to regulate her emotions before the scandal breaks out #YA #F

THE SONG OF ACHILLES x HUNGER GAMES Inspired by Central Africa's Underworld of Kalunga A boy with 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 #QueerPit #Vague #YA

Steeped in queer emo subculture, Heaven’s Tiny Daggers follows a girl punk band’s rise to fame as an invitation to an artists retreat to work on their next album becomes a fight for survival when their demonic hostess intends to sacrifice them to raise her lover from the dead. #QueerPit #A #H #DF #Q

For fans of: ❤️ Slow-burn romance 💀 Love that transcends death 🕷 Death cult hunting her 🧬 Morally gray creator 🌱 Body horror 🪞 Identity & self-discovery 👑 Court intrigue & dangerous alliances #QueerPit #Q #A #DF #F

POTIONS UNINCORPORATED: A curmudgeonly witch with a chronic illness must work with a cheerful thief to stand up to a greedy pharmaceutical company🌱🐈‍⬛💚 💜 Bisexual Romance 💙 Chronic Illness Rep Think HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE X THE SPELLSHOP #QueerPit #A #FR #Cozy #OwnVoices

ROMEO + JULIET x GIDEON IX A demon queen. Her cosmic lover.Separated again and again over the decades by the cosmic order. She brings him back home to her, in a different form each time…they just need human sacrifices to do it. One day, their lost child may be one of them.🥀💀🖤 #QueerPit #A #Q #DF #H

THE HUNGER GAMES meets DAUGHTER OF THE MOON GODDESS where a shapeshifting fox demon bard seeking to become human joins the deadly race up a wish-granting mountain—but falling for a demon hunter may cost her everything. #QueerPit #A #FR #F

With weak cold fire magic, Octavia can't fight her uncle legally taking her fortune. Fleeing to the Temple of the Dead, Octavia's fire raises a girl executed for murder--she knows her power at last. With an army of the dead, she will destroy the empire that keeps women inferior. #QueerPit #A #F #DF

#WritingCommunity My #A Berlin #romance squeezes this #NixedBookResearch into four little words. But then, you already know *exactly* how the Berlin Wall came down on November 9, 1989… right? If not… read on 👇

LUCY UNDYING X FOR THE WOLF Death should have been the end. Yet Ginevra is remade into a monster-her soul still yearning for the one she made a promise to in life. ✨️A promise to come back safe 🌱A promise of moonflowers #QueerPit #F #DF #LGBTQ #A

#YA #SF #questpit #Q

AITA (M26) for lurking outside of my house while my wife cries? SHE'S MEAT. Is it my fault that my brain went on autopilot and took me here? Sure, I've stalked a couple of my patients, but it's the end of the world. THEY'RE MEAT NOW. 🦷🏳️‍🌈🧟‍♀️ #H #na #a #q #sf #questpit #lgbt

I made a 3rd book agent guide for Of Magic and Grief, that's right, this story has a title now! OMaG is my Young Adult Urban Fantasy that's Cemetery Boys meets Legendborn. Book agent guides for my 2 Middle Grade stories are right below 👇🏼 🧵/1

When the mayor’s perfect daughter Lacey Bennet must ally with societal outcast Danira Keres to save her dying brother—the heir to their plague-ravaged world’s brutal patriarchy—her journey becomes one of monsters, impossible love and a fight for the key to humanity’s salvation. #questpit #Q #A

Beauty is a Brittle Glass 💎 Adult contemporary, 83k 💎 Sisters, dual POV 💎 Slow burn romance 💎 Speculative elements 💎 LGBTQ MC 💎 Disability rep Querying soon 👀 #questpit #A #Q

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × DUNGEONS & DADDIES A #litagents and #editors guide to DAD BODIES! Big 5 interest! #QuestPit #A #H #M #Q

Everything believes Krutch Leeroy is a dangerous man. They think he's a ruthless pirate. A conniving thief and brutal warrior. A scoundrel and villain. He's not. That's his curse. Literally. #QuestPit #P #A #SFF

IMPERIAL ASIA story about pheromone powers #BluePit #BluePit📖 FRANKENSTEIN but in a Cantonese matriarchy 🪭Canton gothic ⚔️cocky swordswomen & kungfu 🪭love or pheromone? ⚔️maggots & mad scientists 🪭violent yearning ⚔️generational trauma 🪭locusts #Q #A #R #H #F moodboard by @leonahwrites.bsky.social

Veins of Calris, complete at 89,000 words, is a dark fantasy novel with dual points of view, blending resurrection horror, identity, and slow-burn romance in a dark, atmospheric world. #agentguide #questpit #df #q #h

A princess disguised as a man competes for her stolen throne to defeat a demon possessing the dynasty of kings, while fighting against monsters, societal conventions, and her own growing feelings for a competitor. DAMSEL’s feminine rage x A SONG OF WRAITHS AND RUIN x 🌶️🌶️ #Q #R #F #NA #QuestPit

When their luxury liner sinks, Edith is rescued by a passing ship. But one by one, the other survivors disappear...people the crew insist were never on board. Terrified & unable to escape, Edith must hurry to unearth the ship's sinister secrets or become its latest victim… #A #H #HF #QuestPit #W

LUCY UNDYING X FOR THE WOLF Ginevra was remade to be a weapon. But inside, something thorned and grieving is breaking free. #QuestPit #Df #Q #H