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Courtney Adaire

@courtneyadaire.bsky.social
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writer of ghosts, grief, found family & emotional devastation | currently querying my first novel » courtneyadaire.com

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Courtney Adaire @courtneyadaire.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
gave myself the almost impossible task of choosing just 20 songs off my TSSL playlist to share today. side a: dying, absence, grief, and what does being dead mean now? side b: living, loving, found family, and discovering that death didn’t stop caroline from having a life. #amquerying #bookplaylist
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Courtney Adaire @courtneyadaire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Being the only witness to your own murder would be a lot more useful if anyone could fucking hear you. Caroline has had fourteen years to accept that they can't. Then a living woman sees her, breaking one of the fundamental rules of the afterlife Caroline thought she understood #DVpit #A #LGBT #Spec
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Courtney Adaire @courtneyadaire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When Caroline is murdered at 21, fellow ghost Shane makes sure she isn't alone. Fourteen years later, they've built a life together among the city's dead. When a living woman sees Caroline, they're drawn back into the case they've spent fourteen years learning to live beyond. #DVpit #A #LGBT #Spec
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Courtney Adaire @courtneyadaire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Brynne thinks her shitty college rental is haunted. She's right, but not for the reasons she thinks. Then she learns Caroline Baker disappeared from the house in 2012. When Brynne becomes the first living person to see her ghost, someone can finally ask Caroline what happened. #DVpit #A #LGBT #Spec
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Courtney Adaire @courtneyadaire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Caroline watched two men bury her body. She remembers the night she died. But she doesn't know the whole story. Fourteen years later, something impossible happens: a living college student is able to see her, giving Caroline the first chance to find the answers herself. #DVpit #A #LGBT #Spec
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Courtney Adaire @courtneyadaire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Caroline Baker was murdered at twenty-one, but she did not stop living. For the next fourteen years, she built an afterlife, fell in love, and watched the living move on without her. Now someone is finally able to see her, reopening the murder Caroline learned to live beyond. #DVpit #A #LGBT #Spec
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Courtney Adaire @courtneyadaire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fourteen years after Caroline Baker disappeared, a college student moves into her old bedroom and becomes the first living person able to see her ghost. Now they have an impossible opportunity: solve a cold case with the victim herself as their only witness. #DVpit #A #LGBT #Spec
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Courtney Adaire @courtneyadaire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
okay yes, i did go back and do #DVparty day 1 for fun, sorry it’s super late… A mood board for THE SPACE SHE LEFT
Moodboard for THE SPACE SHE LEFT, made up of many overlapping photographs in muted, dark tones. Images include young women and queer couples, curly hair, punk band shirts and records, piercings, an occult shop filled with jars, a missing-person notice, a gas station at night, dark roads and woods, suburban houses, a shadowy bedroom and doorway, hands reaching and touching, and eerie supernatural imagery including glowing fingertips and a human figure cracked with gold. The collage mixes ordinary Midwestern life, relationships and found-family warmth with darker images of disappearance, ghosts and death.
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Courtney Adaire @courtneyadaire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
should i do the dvparty day 1 prompt even tho its the last day and i missed it? i just think it’ll be fun and i’m sad i missed out 😂
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Courtney Adaire @courtneyadaire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#DVparty 5: My next project is about a woman who dies and gets stuck watching what she left behind: her 3-year-old daughter, the man she loves, and the one-night-stand turned best friend she’s raising her child with. Dying would be easier if it didn’t make her wonder if she’s also in love with him…
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Courtney Adaire @courtneyadaire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#DVparty day 4 Brynne Burke, approximately five minutes after realizing the ghost haunting her bedroom might have been murdered:
Charlie from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia gesturing intensely at a wall covered in papers, photographs, notes, and red string connecting everything in an elaborate conspiracy board.
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Courtney Adaire @courtneyadaire.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#dvparty THE SPACE SHE LEFT, opening line
A square image of a warmly lit bedroom at sunset with a split between golden light on the left and a darker, shadowy interior on the right. White text reads “THE OPENING:” followed by: “I’ve been sitting here for hours watching this guy try and decide what he’s going to do with my body, and honestly… I can’t help but think I could have done this a lot more efficiently.”
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Courtney Adaire @courtneyadaire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#dvparty Meet Caroline, who died in 2012 and Brynne, the college student who moved into her old house in 2026 Watch their worlds collide in THE SPACE SHE LEFT
Pink scrapbook-style character moodboard for THE SPACE SHE LEFT. At the center are Caroline Baker, a young woman with long curly brown hair who died in 2012, and Brynne Burke, a young Black woman with long braids who moves into Caroline’s old house in 2026. Surrounding images evoke the story: a quiet neighborhood at sunset, a “don’t forget me” note, a cold-case investigation board, a gas station at night, ghostly figures, and hands reaching through a supernatural barrier.
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Courtney Adaire @courtneyadaire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
just a note for anyone wanting to follow or interact with me around here! black lives matter. trans women are women. trans rights are human rights. abortion is healthcare. fuck trump. fuck maga. fuck ice. free palestine. welcome and thank you for supporting a lil author in the query trenches 🖤
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Courtney Adaire @courtneyadaire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
new to bluesky, so i suppose i should introduce the ghost currently consuming my life 👻 THE SPACE SHE LEFT | adult upmarket speculative | currently querying #WritingCommunity #Querying #SpeculativeFiction
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