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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The first mistake Ms. Davis made was leaving her students alone with the mysterious box they found hidden in the wall. The next mistake was giving them access to a science book 🧪 #DVpit #PB
Students stare as a mummy rises in their classroom. The teacher is terrified in the background
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When James, a lovable polar bear, takes a wrong turn around the moon, he must venture through outer space to find his way back home. It takes an android, an alien sea monster, and a lot of purple kitties for him to realize how important home really is. #DVpit #PB
The cover of a book with a cute polar bearArt of the polar bear smiling in spaceThe polar bear is small and lost
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ruby loves to celebrate every holiday as loud as she can. She plans the Ostara decor, food, and music, but when the grumpy neighbor boy gets involved, she learns that celebrating quietly can be just as important as sharing your joy as loud as you can. #DVpit #PB
Book cover that reads "Ruby Holiday spreads the love" a girl in a pink snow globe throws pink hearts with a big smile
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A storm is coming. To stop the god of destruction's violent floods, Nephelle hires a marauder captain to cross oceans of horror and awaken the long lost ocean goddess. But trying to prove that she deserves redemption after her many crimes may cost her the world. #DVpit #A #H #R
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I started writing the new novel #GalleryWIP on Friday, and it might be the most fun I've ever had writing a first draft. How many characters should I kill? 🤔
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Is there a gap in picture books that agents and editors are looking for? #AskDV
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Are publishers looking to expand the horromance genre? (please say yes) #AskDV
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Are agents running queries through AI checkers? It's stressing me out that mine might get deleted even though I wrote them myself 😢 #AskDV
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
When the teacher steps out of the room, the kids have just enough time to raise a mummy 👻 Newest #pbillustration
kids maniacally raising a mummy
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
My first post with my new z fold 8 - I'm about to be soooo insufferable 🥰 A sketch of a new #picturebook #illustration where kids revive a mummy in their science classroom 🧙‍♀️
Cute kids illustration sketch
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Lillian Blades, wherever you are on this sprawling internet, I loved your exhibition last year at the Sarasota Art Museum 💖🎨 so much so I wrote about it! #ArtReview #SarasotaArtMuseum @art_sarasota www.islapaints.com/post/art-rev...
islapaints.com
Art Review: Through the Veil
Lillian Blades' work is about heritage and reflections. Using what you have and finding yourself reflected in your work, in the work of your ancestors.
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
There’s probably nothing I love more than making lists and plans for all the wonderful things I’ll do in the future ⛈️💖📖#OptimizationOCD #TooManyHobbies
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sarah l. hawthorn (A FATE WORSE THAN DROWNING '26) @slhawthorn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
i give a forehead kiss to every small business who has an overly detailed history of locks, silverware, jewelry, etc. on their website for me to scan during quick drafting research checks ❤️❤️❤️
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Loved loved LOVED AFTERTASTE by @darialavelleauthor.bsky.social 👻 🥘 Read my full review here: www.islapaints.com/post/book-re...
Book cover of a ghostly blue smoke and salt trickling down onto it
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
After a growing obsession with Amazing Digital Circus and no new episodes to hyper fixate on, I finally read I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison. I don’t know if I’ve ever read something so dark, but it was amazing. ✨✨✨✨
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#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event @bluepit.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
#HappyNewYear! #BluePit is coming up fast on January 13th! We’ll be kicking off our pre-event, #BluePitHype, on January 8th! We also invite those with WIPs and published works to participate! #WriteSky #BookSky #GameDev #IndieDev #TTRPG #Comic #AmQuerying #AmAgenting #LitAgents
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
A lovely piece of literature - cozy and sweet with little-to-no stakes and a focus on characters and world building. It felt like reading a dreamy sibling of Legends & Lattes ☁️💖💤Fully recommend
Dallergut dream department store by Miye Lee book cover
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
This is the third @grady_hendrix book I’ve read, and I devoured it 🧛‍♀️ I never knew horror could be so cozy and terrifying✨ Read the full book review on my blog: tinyurl.com/3xu7ye6s
Book cover of a southern book club’s guide to slaying vampires by Grady Hendrix
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I think #UnhingedPit suits me. I’m posting all at once since my toddler overlords would never allow… what’s it called? Free time.
Astronaut about to shoot another. Wait is this the Titanic meets Haunting of Hill House? Always has been
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
All right, one more for you art lovers out there #UnhingedPit
Two lovers dancing in a ballroom as water rises and a ghost watches
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Hate to toot my own book’s horn, but… #UnhingedPit Hard to beat a horror romantasy, amiright? 👻🚢💕
Buzz saying to woody: death and smut. Death and smut everywhere
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Another high-quality drawing #UnhingedPit Lovers but also ghosts but also a sinking ship but also lovers 💕👻🚢
Two stick figures kissing by a porthole with a ghost watching
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
#UnhingedPit please (Brooklyn accent) It’s got horror, it’s got ghosts, it’s got lovers that used to hate each other but now need each other to survive 💕👻💕
Bernie saying I am once again asking you to read my ghost ship romantasy book. It’s terrifying and I put my heart and soul into it
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
My very beautiful last minute #UnhingedPit submission #A #romantasy #OS (art commissions open btw)
Two people kissing while a ship sinks
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
A cute ghost flees to the autumn woods. I’m fully ready for Halloween, can you tell? 🍁🎃👻 #gouacheillustration #childrensillustration
A little ghost runs to the woods on an autumn day with ominous birds and mountains in the distance
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Oh to be a little lighthouse on the sea, silent, peaceful, and proud #gouacheart
Illustration of a starry sky, a gold moon, and a lighthouse on dark rocks
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
A mini-review of a book I finished back in February: Counting Sheep. It’s a quiet, sweet sort of work like trudging through a field in winter. A crunch of gravel underfoot and mist billowing at the mouth on a crisp morning. Sad and soft and dreary in a bittersweet sort of way🐑🐏
Cover of book: Counting Sheep by Axel Linden
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
One of my hobby dreams is to have the chance to learn scrimshaw (sustainably), but even if it’s not on whale bone, I love to imitate the textures of historical illustrations ✍🏻 #OracleWIP map
Fantasy map in pen and ink
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
If you found a thousand butterflies living in the walls of your grandmother’s rundown antique shop, would you be worried? Melissa isn’t! Read about her disturbing discovery in my new short story: The Fluttering 🦋
Page of her website with a blue butterfly.
The Fluttering
Melissa returned to her grandmother's antique shop in an attempt to find something of value before it's taken by the bank, but instead she uncovers a powerful curse, an unspoken agreement, and a disturbing secret kept for generations.
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“The Fluttering” asks: if the circumstances were right, would you sacrifice your own family?
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I’ve never drawn a map for one of my books before, and this mayyyy be my new obsession 😍 #fantasymap
A half-inked map of a fantasy world
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I know early edits are supposed to be chaotic and messy, but I feel like I’m barely making any progress 😭 It’ll be fine, I just feel like I’m struggling to get a handle on #OracleWIP
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
A doodle for the everlasting #StarlitBog graphic novel that I will finish eventually. I have the whole thing sketched out, surely that counts for something??
A girl dreaming in front of a starry window
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Would I save time by ✨not✨ bedazzling every frame? Sure, but at what cost? At what cost 🧐 #whimsy #StarlitBog #gnwip
A graphic novel page with the frames decorate with flowers and stars
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
This one’s slowly coming together 💕 More ink and color to come 🎨 ✨
Sketch of a boy in an art gallery and a dragon following himSketch of a boy in an art gallery and a dragon following himSketch of a boy in an art gallery and a dragon following him
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I finished writing a southern gothic short story about what happens when a generation decides their wealth and power is more important than the future of their children. No idea where I got the Inspo for that lol ✨🦋☠️ #PortfoliOasis
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I finished the zero draft of #OracleWIP on March 26 (woo!!), so for the first time ever I’m going to actually attempt to document my #editingprocess from start to finish. Maybe it’ll be helpful or even somewhat interesting to someone out there in the digital void✨
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I’m *finally* getting around to updating my website with some writing things. You can read my liminal-spaces-inspired horror story “Containment” there now! :D Just make sure to read it with the lights on 👀
Containment short story
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
My short story, “Containment” was performed on the subscriber portion @NosleepPodcast this week! It was really awesome to hear it read aloud with all the voices and sound effects :D
Containment written by Ava Hollow on the NoSleep Podcast S22E20
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
The #EditorsGuide to my New Adult dark fantasy 🚢 Gilded-age ghost ship 🔪Trapped with her murderer 🔥 Steamy romance ✨ Elite society secrets ☠️ Ghosts, gods, and monsters Editors, please contact @jenissamichelle if you want The Crossing in your inbox!
The crossing an editor’s guide by Ava hollow, represented by Jenissa Graham at Bookends literary agency Comps: hidden occult world of ninth house by Leigh Bardugo and atmospheric, creeping horror of from below by Darcy Coates When Evelyn finds herself upon a shore riddled with bones and no memory of how she got there, a luxury ship named the Auratus appears out of thin air to offer her travel.

But as warnings from the staff and strange occurrences at night continue to plague the ship, Evelyn realizes that life on the Auratus isn’t what it seems. The welcome ceremony for new First Class passengers is promised to alleviate all Evelyn’s concerns, but a sudden memory reveals that Evelyn isn’t just any traveler—she’s dead, and the Auratus is really a ghost ship carrying her to the afterlife.

As fragments of her memory continue to return, Evelyn finds out that her death was no tragic accident, and the latest newcomer sharing the journey with her is not only her fiancé but her murderer.Tropes and themes: Enemies to lovers
Self-sacrifice & redemption
Class & inequality
Summoning evil with dark rituals
Secret societies
An ominous prophecy
The mad matriarch
There is no escape
A secret code
The truth may get you killed
Can my sins ever be forgiven?

Vibes: Gilded Age luxury
Finery, flattery, and flat-out lies 
Eternal servitude is always on the table
A mysterious ship brimming with danger
Aren’t you curious what the servants are up to?
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Join us! But follow the rules! Don’t stay out after dark. Don’t follow the music. Don’t leave first class. Don’t tell them your true name. #A #F #H #OS #UnhingedPit
Cruise party ad splattered with blood
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Ann Littler @annlittler.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
*Record Scratch* *Freeze Frame* Yup, that’s me. The bad apple planning to ruin the entire barrel. You’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation. #Unhingedpit #SnowWhiteWIP Soon to be #Q #YA #R Geekerella X Ready Player One X Let’s Play Murder
A bunch of apples surrounding a rotten one
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The vibes are immaculate. And they just might get you killed. #A #F #H #OS #UnhingedPit
Vibes of Haunting of Hill house, Gilded Age, Spirited Away, Titanic, and Below Deck
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🦋 Gabriel Yuriria @gabriel-yuriria.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
For fans of Flanagan & TMA, this series features fake paranormal investigators facing real encounters they weren't ready for, a missing person mystery that explores grief and trauma and the hardships and lengths people will go through to find their loved ones 🖤 #UnhingedPit #A #H #WIP
TV series template, background of a dark figure standing alone in a dark forest
Upper left: logo of a jaguar, Yuriria Produccions
Upper right: TV Series
Find me in our Memories
Rae never believed in the paranormal, but a lot of people did. That's why the fake
paranormal investigations channel he and his friends made was so popular. Then they met Yael, a self-proclaimed witch. And suddenly their encounters became very real and very dangerous. Now Yael is missing, taken by the very things they tried to protect them from. And Rae will stop at nothing to find them, even if it means going back to face the monsters that have left them all scarred.
Lower left: Written by Gabriel Yuriria
Lower right: Coming soon
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Jessica DeLand - Author (is getting published! 😱) @delandjessica.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Emotion-sucking vampire cereal, the breakfast of abducted ballerinas! Flavors include: ✅ Kidnapping! ✅ Escape Efforts! ✅ Magic Container! ✅ Lackeys! ✅ High school! ✅ Spying! ✅ Panic attacks! ✅ Slow Burn! Reader tested, agent approved! #unhingedpit #Q #YA #F #M #R #FR
Fake Cereal Advertisement with an open cereal box in the center reading "Emotion-sucking vampire cereal" with angry eyes at the top. Arranged around the cereal box with arrows pointing toward it are illustrations of a girl getting kidnapped, a silhouette of a couple looking at each other, three henchmen silhouettes, a girl having a panic attack, a girl in a detective costume with a magnifying glass to her eye, a Tupperware, a stick figure escaping through a door, and a high school. Words are arranged around the cereal box reading "Reader Tested!" "Agent Approved!" "Breakfast of Abducted Ballerinas!" "Fresh Flavors!" "Querying Now!"
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Experience the ultimate adventure crossing the River Styx! Your ticket gets you a front row seat to horrors beyond your comprehension! Enjoy luxurious amenities and unforgettable monsters. Be sure to avoid your murderer, or you’ll become a monster too! #A #F #H #OS #UnhingedPit
Ad for a cruise ship of death - 20% off!
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I have finished the #zerodraft of #OracleWIP ! Yay! This one had good bones to start and it’ll be a delightful world building challenge for me. It’s a beautiful story, and I can’t wait to refine it and share it ✨ So happy!!
Google doc word count of 64378
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
This #InternationalWomensDay I’m busy raising a little girl that is strong, intelligent, caring, and everything the world needs right now. It’s not much, but it’s also everything💙💙💙
A brilliant red rose
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Testing out colors and textures for the #PortfoliOasis illustrations. Sometimes I wonder if I’m being preparing well or if I’m just procrastinating because I’m afraid to start 🤪 Let’s pretend it’s the first one
Colorful swatches
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Ava is querying ✨💖💜💙 @avahollowwrites.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I’m putting together an updated collection of my work - I’m calling it #PortfoliOasis 🏝️ ✨three short stories ⛈️five poems ✨7 illustrations 🌨️#StarlitBog graphic novel pages ✨and a landing page for The Crossing and my WIPs Wish me luck plz 🍀
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