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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I only have 10k words left to revise in my book 👁️👄👁️ and then, following a final read-through, I am DONE!

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

✨🕯️💻 Manifesting an incredible April for all of us querying & on sub 💻🕯️✨

Sabrina carpenter on stage in a silver two piece, doing a yoga pose with candle and sparkle emojis placed in a circle around her

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Reading wrapup for 2025 Q1! I read 10 books (and am about to finish 2 more) 🥰

My reading wrapup for 2025’s first quarter:
I who have never known men, jawbone, none of this is true, Emily Wilde’s map of the other lands, Tidepool, Queen of nothing, this summer will be different, meet me at the lake, the reformatory, horror movie, and I’m about to finish monstrilio and Brideshead revisited

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

8 agent likes for this one over on the 🐦 app 🥹 this has been such a successful day!!

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A pitch card for my adult horrormance about desire, societal expectations, and regret. 🫀🕯️ #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #H

GALEHOUSE
An adult gothic horrormance with fantasy elements
When a lonely woman with touch-based magic collapses at her wedding, her fiancé takes her to his labyrinthian estate to recover. There, she learns that her fiancé is cursed to become a monster each night.
And when bodies begin to drop around the manor and she falls for his doctor brother, she is torn between her desire and doing the right thing.
But there's only one way this ends: in blood.
JUNIPER & THORN by Ava Reid
ONE DARK WINDOW by Rachel gillig
MK HARDY’s THE NEEDFIRE
HOUSE OF SHADOWS by Darcy Coates
83k words - Big 5 editor interest

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A pitch card for my adult/YA crossover horror about ghosts, grief, and art. 🍂🕯️ #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #H

The Misfortune of Cole Manor
A gothic horror
When a girl is invited to live in a haunted manor, she discovers that there are bones in its walls-and that her host wants her to become a part of his collection.
Comps:
CRIMSON PEAK
THE SECRET HISTORY by DONNA TARTT
A STUDY IN DROWNING by Ava Reid
The Death of Jane Lawrence by CAITLIN STARLING
100k words - Big 5 editor interest

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

ASID X PSYCHO 🕯️ a haunted manor 👻 ouija sessions & séances 💋 entangled romances 🩰 ballet, 🎹 piano, & 🎻 violin lessons 🛌 night terrors ✨ longing & yearning 🥀 gothic atmosphere 🪚 terrifying visions 💀 a host with a disturbing hobby #H #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit

A 3x3 grid in sepia tones featuring: a girl lying on the ground, dead leaves scattered around her, a faceless person playing violin, a lush green yard viewed from a windowpane, three hands on a ouija board planchette, a blonde girl posing on a piano seat, a lit candelabra beside a vintage book, a stone bust of a woman placed before a bookshelf, a ballet dancer in a pink dress, and a boy in a camel pea coat and brown sweater

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

JUNIPER & THORN X ONE DARK WINDOW 🪞 a violent curse 🕯️ a dark isolated manor 🫳🏻 touch-based magic 🫀 heart-eating monsters 🥀 gothic atmosphere ✨ longing & yearning 💋 secret romance 🪦 a dark history 🩸 monstrous body horror #H #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit

A 3x3 grid in blue-toned black & white featuring: a gloomy mausoleum in the forest, a crying woman lying over an ill man, a pale woman with dark curls showing off her collarbone beneath a white nightgown, a ghostly image of a woman, her head thrown back, a grand high wall of picture frames, ghostly hands reaching out to each other, a man’s hand reaching out to undo the ties of a woman’s nightgown, a man and woman in shadow, kissing behind a curtain, and a dark, four-poster wooden bed

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Horror, which is definitely not surprising! 🥰🖤 #booksky

My Storygraph genre stats, which show I’ve read 4 horror, 3 romance, 3 fantasy, 2 historical, 2 contemporary, 1 dystopian, 1 LGBTQIA+, 1 YA, 1 thriller, 1 mystery, and 1 literary

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Late night writing session aka reading my favorite moments in Galehouse 🖤✨

For the first time, Oliver's eyes darkened with contempt. The sight frightened her. "Nothing
will fix our family save killing every last one of us."
She studied the change in him. "You can't really think that."
He was quiet a moment, and then he leaned in closer, conspiratorial. His eyes glittered in the
dim glow. "I hope he's good to you."
Again that sparking flutter in her chest. She strangled it, swallowed it, until she could convince
herself it was only the lingering anxiety of the last twenty-four hours. "I hope he is too."

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

AHHHHHHHH SO PROUD!!!! 🥹🥹✨✨ she’s gonna be a real book! That we can all hold! 😭🖤

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Intro to the WIP I’m revising 🥰 DARCY COATES X JUNIPER & THORN When a woman with touch-based magic discovers her fiancé’s monstrous curse, she worries he might be behind the sudden murders around their manor. And after she falls mysteriously ill, she realizes she’ll be the next body to fall.

A group of warm and moody photos: a girl in a fancy nightgown brushing her wavy hair at a vanity, a couple brushing knuckles together, a man kissing or biting a woman’s neck, a black victorian dress, a couple lying on a wooden floor together, a snowy rooftop, and hands reaching through fog toward each other

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

✨ An agent’s guide to GALEHOUSE, my next adult project to enter the trenches! 🖤 🕯️ Featuring Big 5 editor interest, it’s currently in its final round of revisions, so agents, please do let me know if you’d like to see it in your inbox soon! 🫀 #amquerying #writingcommunity

Pale blue text over a black & white photo of a manor at the edge of the ocean. The text reads: an agent’s guide to Galehouse. Adult gothic horror-romance - 83k words

6 book covers pasted over a black and white photo of gilded picture frames hanging on a wall. The book covers are: juniper & thorn by Ava Reid, one dark window by Rachel Gillig, the death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin starling, the needfire by MK hardy, the Essex serpent by Sarah Perry, and house of shadows by Darcy Coates

Pale blue text with a gothic aesthetic grid over a gray background. The text reads: Vibes:
Gothic setting
Murder mystery
Hurt/comfort
Steam
Poisoned cups
Cursed brothers
Body horror
Secret romance
Monstrous transformations
Yearning
Ghosts (?)
Wandering corridors w/ a candlestick

Pale blue text over a black and white photo of a spooky graveyard. The text reads: PITCH:
When a lonely woman with touch-based magic collapses at ber wedding, her fiancé takes ber to his labyrinthian estate to
recover.
There, she learns that her fiancé is cursed to become a monster each night.
And when bodies start to drop around the manor and she falls for bis doctor brother, she is torn between ber desire and doing the right thing.
But there’s only one way this ends: in blood.

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j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

TOMORROW!!!!! 👀👏

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julie gourinchas @literaryfey.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

hello friends! my colleague, the brilliant Lorna Hemingway, is on the hunt for new projects! she represents everything in the children's space from board books to YA and is specifically looking for: - contemporary romance - coming of age (especially BIPOC) - gorgeous, punchy graphic novels #mswl

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

IM SO OBSESSED WITH THIS BOOK AND ITS COVER AND ITS AUTHOR!

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

“So you’re saying some unwell individual broke into the Gale estate without Ewan or I knowing, and killed him?”

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

would really just love for someone to give me a chance in publishing 🥲 feels like I’m going backwards

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I finished Rebecca yesterday and it’s given me suchhh a book hangover 😭 genuinely one of my favorite books I’ve ever read

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

We must must must resist the idea that generative AI is inevitable. It is not inevitable. People don't really like it. It doesn't do its job well. It removes the humanity from one of the most human-forward things. Not to mention it is an environmental nightmare. Keep banging the drum. Say no to AI.

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I only need to finish 8 more books by the end of the year. Can I do it

A screenshot of my goodreads reading challenge goal, showing that I’ve read 32 of 40 books, and am 3 books behind schedule

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Rewatching The Holiday has become such a treasured tradition for me that I legitimately plan it like an event. I need no distractions, the comfiest clothes and blankets, the perfect snack, and it has to be juuust before Christmas. I look forward to it almost as much as Christmas itself. 🥹

media.tenor.com

a group of men are standing next to each other in a room and looking at each other .

Alt: Jude Law in “The Holiday” wearing a black turtleneck in a busy bar, and looking over his shoulder, smiling

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

✨ bookish checkpoint ✨ last book read: the exorcist by william peter blatty current reads: my darling dreadful thing by johanna van veen & rebecca by daphne du maurier last add to tbr: the eye of the ouroboros by @megbontra.bsky.social next anticipated read: emily wilde’s encyclopedia of faeries

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cass biehn | VESUVIUS out now 🌋 @cassbeewrites.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

the writers who have 14 different unfinished WIPs yet still regularly post “I might have an idea for a new WIP” are integral to the author ecosystem

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Been doing a little more brainstorming for my snowy cabin horror WIP and getting sooo excited to start drafting again! ❄️🪓

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Support queer horror & indie bookstores! Here is the shopping list: bookshop.org/lists/horror... Here is my substack with links to my reviews for almost this entire list: open.substack.com/pub/sadiehar... @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @tiffmorris.bsky.social @eveharms.com @horrorsong.blog

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Share the first kiss from your book. 🫀🤍 A slightly steamy glimpse of my gothic horror WIP, Gale House 👀 #writingcommunity #amwriting

She gasped and whipped around. Now facing him, their faces just centimetres apart, she pressed her forehead to
his. His hungry, wicked energy plumed into her bloodstream, but this time, she welcomed it. It was so similar to her
own-needing, desperate— but stronger, masculine. The desire to take so prominent, she saw stars.
"Kiss me," she begged against his mouth, their lips so nearly touching, her words barely met air before falling
onto his tongue. "Dear god, kiss me until I can't breathe."
So he did.
His kiss was firm and eager, his hands coming around her waist to keep her as close as possible. His soft lips
parted on a gasp before swelling into a groan. He kissed her again, moving his mouth in a slow, torturous rhythm.
Teasing, tasting, biting. Katie's head swam, floating away from her body and into the corners of the room. But still it
wasn't enough.

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

getting in one last revision session before bed 🏃🏼‍♀️ this book *will* be ready for betas before december!!! 🙂‍↕️

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Repost with your 5 favorite reads of this year (so far): ✨ A Study in Drowning - Ava Reid ✨ Vampires of El Norte - Isabel Cañas ✨ Juniper & Thorn - Ava Reid ✨ The Witch’s Heart - Genevieve Gornichec ✨ The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches - Sangu Mandanna

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I’m definitely sad about the loss of writing Twitter. and I’m going to keep my account up for my own reference (it was basically my writing diary the last 10 years) but otherwise I’m really liking it over here 🦋 it’s like a fresh start without all the clutter of bots & ads

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

omg I JUST realized there are no ads here 😍

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Spending this revision session sprinkling in more foreshadowing, gothic imagery, and body horror. So much fun. 🥰

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

okay folks it's that time: I'm putting together the 2025 horror list in earnest. If you're an author/agent/editor/marketer etc with a scary book coming out next year, please tell me about it here: forms.gle/BBYwJCtziLkR... (it used to be a lot easier to source this on twitter, pls share!)

The Bernie Sanders "I am once again asking" meme but on the bottom it says "for your scary 2025 books"

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

just reread the climax of gale house for the first time since drafting it and I’m genuinely so in love with it 😭

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Finally at my laptop for a writing session! This revision has been a lot of plot hole filling, continuity correcting, and character arc tweaking. Small fixes, but tedious work! Trying to knock over as few dominoes as possible ✨

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

If you read or create content about: ✅ Explicit Sex ✅ Fat People ✅ BIPOC people ✅ Neurodivergent People ✅ Women ✅ LGBTQ+ people THEN YOU ARE BEING POLITICAL! Because some people's identities are INHERENTLY POLITICAL.

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Arianna Siddiqui is OPEN to queries @ariannasidd.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Hey #writingcommunity, I’m hosting a fundraiser for WRRAP! Critiques from agents, art, pitch help and so much more available to bid on! www.32auctions.com/organization...

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Sending so much love to my American mutuals this week. I’m still in disbelief that it actually turned out this way. I haven’t been around here much (it’s hard to shake the Twitter habit) but I’m trying to be!

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

repost with your creator goals for 2025 🪓 draft my haunted cabin horror 🫀 start querying gale house 🪦 outline my nosferatu-inspired gothic cursed fog wip

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Hi bsky! I’m a 30 y/o writer from Atlantic Canada, currently revising my 6th completed novel, an adult gothic horror, and querying another! I’m a fan of: Crimson Peak Mike Flanagan Billie Eilish Ethel Cain Sabrina Carpenter Hozier Ava Reid Talia Hibbert Darcy Coates Isabel Cañas & Emily Henry! 🥀🕯️🪦🫀

A warm and moody 3 by 3 grid of gothic imagery: an ornate set of wooden doors, a man’s hand touching a woman’s bare back above her nightgown, a pair of black lit candles, a couple holding hands discreetly, a woman with her back exposed and her hands splayed on a corridor wall, a victorian lady’s hand on an ornate knocker, a snowy graveyard, a man in a suit plucking a note on a piano, and a foggy manor at night

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

I did it!!! The first draft of GaleHouse WIP is DONE!!! After 6 years of sitting on the back burner, 6 months of drafting, and 83k words, my adult gothic about cursed monsters is DONE, FINISHED, and I can finally start revising!! So excited for the future of this book 🥹🤍🫀🕯️

A screenshot of my manuscript reading the final lines:
“Yes,” she whispered into his ear.
I do.
THE END

A text box pasted over a dark photo of a girl with wet black hair strung over her face, her face pointed up to the sky, her eyes closed. The text reads: It was horribly painful, yes. At some point, her screams had faded into background noise, muffled by the
rush of blood in her ears. But above it all was a strange pleasure, too. It felt unnaturally right, her body
realigning itself. Like she'd been living life as a stiff doll, frozen in place, and this transformation was stretching
out muscles she hadn't realized she possessed, loosening old pains she'd so long carried, they'd become a part of
her.
Her body changing was a great terror, but it was also a violent relief.

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

I’m just 2 scenes away from finishing the first draft of The House of Gale, my Victorian gothic wip! I first dreamed of this project back in 2018, set it aside all these years, and started redrafting it this July. I can’t wait to bring her into the query trenches soon! 👀🤍🫀

A woman in a black dress in a dark room with light peeking through wooden slats, looking at the camera with a sinister look and her hand braced on the slats, with the author name BROOKE A. BELLAMY and the book title HOUSE OF GALE overlayed onto it

A warm-toned, gothic 3x3 grid featuring: a Victorian lady facing away in fog, gilded photo frames on a wall, a house in the middle of the sea, embroidered flowers in a frame, a girl lying in the forest, her back exposed from her dress, a dark stairwell, a man working at a desk, melting candles, and a graveyard statue in shadow

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

i have on a chunky sweater, cozy socks, fall lights, a fake fireplace flickering, a candlabra by my side, the weather is gloomy, and i’m burning the same candle i burned while writing cole manor—the fall writing vibes are so good today 🥰✨

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

lots and lots of revisions done on juliet book, plus a short story submission sent, and now i’m finishing off with my annual watch of crimson peak 🥹 it’s a good day!!!

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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

I’ve been starting my rewrite of Cole Manor while I wait for beta feedback on Becoming Juliet, and it has been going so well! The first two chapters are done and (hopefully) make my opening more concise and believable, and I’m enjoying it so much! I always love coming back to this story. 🥹🖤🍂🩰🎻🎹

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