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Cheryl_Ann78

@cherylannwrites.bsky.social
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Mum, writer, navigator of ADHD & OCD and unapologetic addict of cheese 🧀 In the query trenches while I work on the next book!

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Gemma Smith @gemma-smith.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🔪 Ada - a medium & fraud, turns to murder, determined to create the perfect ghost 🪦 Harriet - terrified of spirits, cursed with the ability to hear them ☠️ When her best friend is murdered, Harriet must face her fear & seek out the dead to find the killer ✨Dual POV #YouDeservepIt #a #hf #q soon
A collage of Victorian-era images surrounding the words 'when the dead talk, secrets don't stay buried.' The images include: a woman holding a candle, a policeman finding a body, four images of seances, a woman stalking another woman in the street, and a slum.
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Katie Collan @kancollan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
LEGENDBORN X AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER When fighters start disappearing from an underground elemental tournament, a sixteen-year-old participant with wind powers must uncover the tournament’s secrets before she loses a match and shares their fate. #2025Pit #YA #F #Jewish
A collage featuring a hooded figure standing in an underground tunnel that has the four elements on the walls and floor.
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🟣S.L. PrayersforPeace🙏🏼🌻 @stpolishook.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
TENDER IS THE FLESH + THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS As a wild human, Rachel’s flesh is considered a delicacy. Captured & sold at market, her fate now rests on her ability to convince her not quite human buyer that she is worth more alive than on his dinner plate #2025Pit #Q #A #SF #H #SpecFic
Creepy farm vibe mood board with butcher knives mixed in with dark mood pics of farm animals
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Elaine Buckner @elainebuckner.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Jane Eyre retelling Luna Elliot, once Baby Jane Doe, finds refuge as Thornfield Hotel's concierge, and falls for the pensive hotelier E. Rochester. But as love blooms, secrets, vanishing staff, and a fatal plunge ignite suspicion threatening her happiness. #2025PIT #A #LF #R #H #T #DR
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Alec @alecjmarsh.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
#2025pit #a #f #h KJC + EVEN THOUGH I KNEW THE END Scotland, 1925: a thief, a sorceress, and a demon hunter travel to England to steal a demonic grimoire. The thief and the sorceress enjoy a steamy affair, but he pines for the hunter. As feelings clash, betrayals threaten to become apocalyptic.
A moodboard containing three images of people in 1920s clothing, a skull emitting smoke, a library, an Edinburgh row house, and two occult sigils
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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Elin thought she was elected to reform the nation, protect workers, humble the nobility and break the power of the slaving charterlords. Instead she's alone at the top, politically dead and dodging assassins sent by the prophetic WHETHER MEN as they launch a coup they know will win. #2025Pit #A #F
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Chris W. McGuinness @cwmcguinness.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Hellbound Bastards is a completed, 32k-word weird western novella that combines the stark violence of Blood Meridian with the nightmarish cosmic terror of The Dunwich Horror. It's also got: 🔫Gunfights 📕An Occult Tome 💰A Bank Robbery 🕯️Black Magic 🩸And blood... lots of it #2025pit #A #H
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Amy *Gruesome* Gech @amygrech.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The Gathering is mandatory by Jasper Carrion’s decree. Villagers compete to partake in the Feast, a four-hour eating orgy, for those lucky enough to snag RING balls matching two sets of numbers selected at random, desire can be enjoyed in excess. A HUNGER ARTIST X THE RUNNING MAN #A #F #H #pit2025
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Samuel Best @storiesbysamuel.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
As a child, Emma found her grandmother in the woods, crying over something awful yet unseen. The memory has been lost for years but Emma’s return to her grandmother’s house brings the horror back, drawing her into a world of witchcraft and the occult. #A #H #Novella #2025Pit
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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
THE HONEY WITCH x LATE BLOOMER A disabled witch hires a butch grocer to help her failing apothecary, but in falling for the grocer, the witch angers the ghost haunting her shop, and, oddly, her half-satyr best friend. The Witch and The Grocer 🍇🐝 #RM #A #YA #DIS #ownvoices #2025Pit
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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
🐝 Alarra, single witch with chronic pain, needs a helper. 🧑🏻‍🌾 Robin, butch grocer, needs a second job. 💁🏻‍♀️ Trixie, half-satyr bff, doesn’t like this. For Alarra, working with Robin is a dream that turns into a nightmare when a ghost starts tormenting her apothecary. #2025Pit #RM #LGBT #DIS #A #Q
Witch looking lovingly at a grocer in a dimly lit apothecary
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Eliwood S(pooky) Ghost @eliwoodsgheist.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
While visiting her father, Edie Grayson falls in love with his touristy seaside town. Unfortunately, there's a dark undercurrent here. Edie has to find out: what is wrong in Bludeye Beach? DRESDEN FILES X GRAVITY FALLS 👧Character driven 💕Slow burn romance 👻Monster menagerie #2025pit #A #Q #H #F
A collage with text overlaid to read My Summer in Bludeye. The images are: 1. A close up of a girl's eyes with red X's over them. 2. The silhouette of a girl standing in front of a bright green light. 3. A wooden sign reading Bludeye Beach est. 1818. 4. A cliff overlooking an ocean. 5. Two preteens are looking down at a phone. All of their eyes are covered in red X's. 6. A black and white image of a hand covered in unidentified black substance, with the word help written over it.
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Lori Hunt @lahuntlovesbooks.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
#2025Pit 👀
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Lori Hunt @lahuntlovesbooks.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
#2025Pit 👀
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Stephanie Sanders-Jacob @sandersjacob.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Stalked by Mothman and plagued by visions of his dead sister, inept cowhand Thomas turns to witchcraft. But magic comes at a terrible price. Outriding accusations of serial murder is easy… Resurrection, on the other hand, may cost Thomas his soul. RED RABBIT x WIZARD AND GLASS #2025Pit #H #W #YA 🏳️‍🌈
A newspaper from 1878 featuring a solar eclipse.
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Lori Hunt @lahuntlovesbooks.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
#2025Pit 👀
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Tyler Stasi 🍓👒🕰️ @tylerstasi.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
#2025Pit #F #Q OUABH x ODW x TOG In a land on the brink of magical renewal, a young woman braves the hidden dangers of her kingdom to stop a mysterious rot from spreading. 💐sentient land w/no shores 👑insect queen 🌱disgraced heir hungry for revenge 🫐charming blue stranger
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🍂 Caitlin Duffy 🍂 @caitduffy.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
COME CLOSER x MAUVE FLY x DIONYSUS When talentless lead actress Bea learns the director wants to replace her with an understudy, she holds a Dionysian ritual in the woods. Something answers. Bea transforms. And the show must go on. #H #A #2025pit
Moodboard for Caitlin Duffy's horror novel The Theatre of Cruelty. It is on a tan background. Moving clockwise, there is an image of a moody forest, a photo of a young white woman looking in the mirror, an oil painting of the maenids, a black and white portrait photo of Antonin Artaud, a photo from the stage of a theatre where the red seats are empty and the only thing on the stage is a lit ghost light, a side photo of a sculpture of Dionysus's head, the covers of my three comps: Come Closer, Mauve Fly, and Black Swan, an oil painting of Dionysus overseeing a feast.
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Elaine Buckner @elainebuckner.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Crimson Peak X Lisa Jewell As the new concierge, Luna's dark past & future collide in a romance with the enigmatic hotelier, but dark secrets, vanishing staff, & a fatal plunge from the penthouse balcony scorch her romance & threaten to unravel her fragile sense of self. #2025PIT #A #LF #R #H #T
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Brennan LaFaro @brennanlafaro.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
CHAMBER THE ROUND A supernatural noir. Monty and Liza are enforcers trying to catch a man who killed one of their own. Only the fugitive has help: gods aiming to sow chaos. Can they survive long enough to reverse the events set in motion? CITY ON FIRE mixed with Celtic myth. #2025pit #A #H #T
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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
50 years ago, a man in a hand-painted skull mask killed 10 people in Saddleton, TX, then vanished into the night. Now, three desperate teens are going to find out what really happened to the Saddleton Skull, and come face to face with a killer in...NIGHT OF THE SKULL. #2025pit #H #YA
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Yvonne Knop (they/them) @yvonne-knop-author.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
MIDNIGHT LIBRARY X DOCTOR WHO When a book bearing his name crashes through David’s window, he’s thrust into a battle between cosmic authors shaping reality and the leaders of Fate, who want to replace them with AI. Soon he has to ask himself: Is he human—or an ultimate weapon? #2025pit #A #SF #F
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J.M. Thor 🧿 @mr-thor.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
When a Y2K doomsday cult kidnaps an old friend, 13yo Jackson must team up with his ex-80s rocker uncle and his punky best pal to solve the mystery before the clock strikes midnight on NYE. From PDX to the Cali redwoods to the AZ desert. An original riff on J. Bellairs' tropes. #2025Pit #MG #M #H #S
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Katie Collan @kancollan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
ALL YOUR TWISTED SECRETS X ALL OF US ARE DEAD When six divisive high schoolers get stuck together in a zombie outbreak, they must set aside their differences and travel cross-country through hordes of rabid cannibals, before they're infected by the disease they've sworn to destroy. #2025Pit #YA #H
A guy holding a baseball bat, standing in front of a horde of zombies on a neighborhood street.
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Amy *Gruesome* Gech @amygrech.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The Gathering is mandatory by Jasper Carrion’s decree. Villagers compete to partake in the Feast, a four-hour eating orgy, for those lucky enough to snag RING balls matching two sets of numbers selected at random, desire can be enjoyed in excess. A HUNGER ARTIST X THE RUNNING MAN #A #H #pit2025
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Liza Libes @pensandpoison.org · 27/01/2025
SUCCESSION X THE BELL JAR Following the suicide of her sales agent Rebecca Solomon, New York CEO Cassandra Feuerbach becomes entangled in the hypocrisies of the New York elite as she uncovers a controversial social experiment that took Rebecca's life. #A #LF #2025Pit
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Diamond Doyle (she/ella/elle) is Querying @diamonddoyle.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Haves and have-nots. Syphilis and silicosis. A small town in the wake of a serial killer and his angry God. For his town, his love interest, and most of all his soul, Lt. Noble must face his own demons to stop a Luciferian evil. ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK X THE HUNTER #A #T #2025pit #upmarket
A collage of three images labeled with "Butte" : A cage that takes miners underground, the author standing in that cage, and an old engine for hauling ore
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KB Archer ✨is querying✨ @kbarcherwrites.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
📌 Brainy Gabrielle dreams of college—until the town golden boy murders her sister. She trades hero for villain to avenge girls as a bloodthirsty vigilante, but must outsmart the law and survive her own plan to succeed. 🕵️‍♀️ ROBIN HOOD meets DEATH NOTE & IRON WIDOW w/ editor interest ❗ #2025Pit #YA #T
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Sarah Gallego Author HOTWQ @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
🖤 Labyrinth x Aladdin 🖤 Imprisoned in a fae dungeon, a girl is offered salvation by the cruel enemy king who has every reason to want her dead after her father cursed him. She has to decide if she should trust the evil fae she's falling for, or betray him and win a crown of her own #2025Pit #YA #RF
Eerie mood board in shades of grey showing dark fairies, rams heads, a girl with a sword and a rolling sea
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Diamond Doyle (she/ella/elle) is Querying @diamonddoyle.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Jane Harper X ALL THE SINNERS BLEED Local police are stretched thin and have to call in a collaboration with the FBI. If Lt. Noble and Special Agent Janes are to save the last shreds of innocence left in small-town America they must play a twisted game with a serial killer. #A #T #2025pit #upmarket
A gallows frame leading to an underground mine with a full moon in the background, neon tracing along the height of the frame, and BUTTE painted in white letters on the right side.
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Milo (he/xe) 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @milosometimes.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
THE STRINGS OF WILLIS MANOR Thistle Willis is sick. She's confined to her manor and under the thumb of Mama. She slowly unravels horrifying mysteries around her while narrowly avoiding inhumane treatment from The Healer. Family secrets, dark magic and female rage. #2025Pit #A #S #SPF #LGTBQ
Inside of a glass dome, looking up. A column supports the center of the dome. It is covered in leaves. The image is tinted green.A mood board made of 9 images.
The interior of an overgrown green house.
Two hands, covered in black powder, reaching up.
A pile of old paper. Some have typewritten words. Some have sketches.
Two hands reaching toward a ceiling that is painted to be the sky.
An old grey mansion in front of a lake.
Two people in a candlelit room. The room has paintings covering the walls.
A collection of old jars on a shelf. They all have handwritten labels and corks.
Two hands being wrapped in strings and shadows.
A 9-paned glass that looks into a greenhouse.
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Jocelyne Gregory @jocelynegregory.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Vikings x Derry Girls = Viking, Nun, Murder, Chicken. A chance encounter between a Viking and a fake nun leads to murder, mystery, and romance. #2025Pit #A #HF #R #T
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Janet Innes @janetinnes.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
In the aftermath of nuclear war, Ana Su leads a double life: head of a refugee camp for Slavic war survivors, and member of a terrorist group attacking war profiteers. Under threat of discovery and death, she must choose the refugees’ safety or her dedication to justice. #2025pit #A #D #T
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R.J. Huneke @rj.rjhuneke.com · 27/01/2025
#2025Pit When Marz DeMaria leaves campus seeking an adrenaline sleep aid, the Indian-expat’s motorcycle hits a pothole, goes airborne & opens an immersive Déjà Vu-doors to alternate pasts, presents & futures lead to untold possibilities & unknowable perils. StrangerThings+DARK MATTER #A #SPF #T #DIS
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Jenn aka Lady D @jennthedragonfly.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
MURDER, SHE KINKED: Ava is a writer working at being a dominatrix as research for her next novel. When her best friend and mentor is brutally murdered, she continues in the business to search for the killer. Will she be the next victim? #2025Pit #T #A
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Taylor Swift’s RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME x WHAT LIES BENEATH When Sophie is brutally dumped, a voice in her head prods her to seek revenge. Is she possessed—or just pissed? 🌊unreliable narrator 🌊a haunting secret 🌊second chance love 🌊a twist that will 👀 #2025pit #na #t
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phoebe oh (she/her) is querying! ☆ @phoebeoh.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Twenty years after escaping a serial killer, Marissa is horrified when he begins haunting her. Paranoid and desperate for help, she must destroy the ghost before he finishes what he started twenty years ago. MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT x THE GIRL FROM WIDOW HILLS #2025PIT #A #M #S #T #BIPOC #LGBT #ND
A moodboard in a 3 by 3 grid. From top left to bottom right: the opening of a sewer outfall; a woman hidden behind a semi-transparent cloth; foggy woods; a dark trail in the woods; the title text "OUTFALL;" a pile of messy trash on the street; the back of a woman running through a field; the inside of a sewer outfall with the outside world visible; the vague outline of a figure's head, hands, and body, as though pushing against a semi-transparent wall.
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Rebecca Jones-Howe @rebeccajoneshowe.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
A Gen-X suburban mom's sick neurotic mental state is put on full display when a home intruder stumbles into her home. AMERICAN PSYCHO + HEATHERS #A #S #T #2025Pit
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tara @tarakazhani.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
THIS GIRL’S A KILLER x MEXICAN GOTHIC A student’s quest to prove that she didn’t kill her classmate leads her into UC Irvine’s sinister underbelly & forces her to question her role in her classmate’s disappearance — and what she is willing to do to hide it. #A #T #M #SPF #2025Pit #queer #POC
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Elizabeth Land Quant @elizabethlquant.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
A closed room country house murder you say? May I introduce you to FUCK THIS MURDER 🐊🐊🐊 - a humorous, foul mouthed mystery, complete w/ sabotaged pre-wedding jaunts (bad food, poison oak, BEES), rekindled romance, a murder forest, & much more! #2025Pit #A #M #autism #Disabilty #LGBTQIA+ #OWN
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a large white house with a gazebo in the background
Alt: a large white house with a gazebo in the background, and people are running around frantically
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Sean Foy @ybseanfoy.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
In order to reclaim her dream, an unsociable dancer must concoct an elaborate plan to redeem her hallucinating stalker and rid herself of her abrasive boyfriend, an extortionist drug dealer, & a lifetime of guilt and remorse stemming from a 13-yr-old murder. BROTHER x BLACK SWAN #2025Pit #A #S #T
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Gareth Lewis @gdlewis23.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
A group of strangers win invites to a hotel on a remote island paradise, unaware they’re the entertainment at a serial killer reality show live-streamed on the dark web. Battle Royale x And Then There Were None x Glass Onion #2025pit #A #T
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Andree Koehler | Tahira Heru @hourhyder.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The sun is dying and there was a living being inside the mysterious artifact from Mercury. The first android CEO of the Sol System has to save his citizens, but his enemies and love life make it nearly impossible. Novel working title: ANCESTORS OF EARTH #2025pit
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