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Courtney Reece

@courtneywrites.bsky.social
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author of MEET ME IN THE WOODS 🩸 (Out Now! Wild Ink Publishing) | she/her | former English teacher | currently querying RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME 🌊🥀 (81k spec thriller)

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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
When Sophie is brutally dumped, she can't help but wonder: Is she possessed or just pissed? 🌊1956/2025 dual timelines 🥀a coastal town with secrets 🌊 female rage 🥀 second-chance love 🌊 a haunted restaurant 🥀 a twist that will 👀 #posterpit #q #wf #spec #a
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Nightbitch x Slewfoot When college graduate Hannah returns to her isolated hometown and recognizes strange changes to her body, she must learn the ancient calling of her ancestors and protect the natural world from man’s greed without losing herself in the process. #posterpit
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
ADDIE LARUE x DIVINE RIVALS x DAWSON'S CREEK When Birdie desperately tries to keep her best friend Lennon from moving away, she unknowingly summons a trickster god tasked w/ severing humans' invisible threads, but ends up tangling the threads of all three. #posterpit #f #a #q
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
my debut is now on KU!🎀🩸 a.co/d/0bxhmLzd
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Love that genre blends are having a moment! #amquerying #writingcommunity
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
almost done drafting 🎀oh deer!🎀 🦌a town full of satanic panic 🦌three generations of women turning into vigilante deer 🦌transforming into deer as a metaphor for chronic illness 🦌an unlikely partnership with the Devil 🦌a forest worth saving 🦌a data center worth destroying
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
🦌Slowly transforming into a wild animal like NIGHTBITCH 🦌Cultivating a relationship with the Devil like SLEWFOOT 🦌Goring the townsfolk with her new set of antlers? OH DEER! #UnhingedPit #A #H #wip
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
when I took “Help, I’m still at the restaurant” and ran with it and made sure to include petty ghosts and horrible men getting exactly what they deserve and female friendship found in the most unexpected places. #UnhingedPit #A #q
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
🌊2025: Sophie, a broken-hearted idealist 🌊1956: Rebecca, a free spirit with limited choices When their paths converge, female rage and revenge ensues🔪 Can Sophie untangle herself from Rebecca before things go too far? #questpit #A #SP #WF
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
SLEWFOOT x NIGHTBITCH When chronically-ill Hannah returns home from college, she learns her maternal line turn into vigilante deer on their 22nd birthdays, leaving her to decide whether she will transform into a deer or choose a shortened human life for love. #questpit #a #w #h
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
common denominator? ✨magic✨
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
When your dual timelines collide… These two know a little something about being wronged and female rage. Will a small town’s dirty secrets be dug up and brought to the light or are both women cursed, doomed to repeat their haunted timelines for eternity? #onsubmission
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Bruce Buchanan @bbuchananwomble.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Book review time! If you like teen drama with a supernatural element, MEET ME IN THE WOODS by @courtneywrites.bsky.social is one you will want to check out! @wildinkpublishing.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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Bruce Buchanan's review of Meet Me in the Woods
5/5: Moon Creek is a seemingly typical small Midwestern town with a lot of magic, mystery, and danger bubbling beneath its surface. And we readers are here for it! Teenagers Lowen, Noah and Taylor ha...
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
When Sophie Scott is brutally dumped, she begins dreaming of a life in the 1950's and hearing an unfamiliar voice prodding her to seek revenge. Is she possessed--or just pissed? On sub now🌊 #posterpit #ag #spf #a
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
My publisher just sent me a fun surprise for Launch Day… A code to get the physical copy of Meet Me in the Woods for $14.99! If you are looking for a YA book with vampires and small towns and broken curses and creepy woods and witchcraft, look no further!🎀🩸 shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🎀🩸MEET ME IN THE WOODS is up on Goodreads!🎀🩸 If you’re looking for a #summerween YA vampire book to instantly transport you to crisper, cooler, spookier seasons, add it to your to-read list here: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... Thanks!!!
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🎀🩸PRE-ORDERS NOW AVAILABLE🎀🩸 linktr.ee/CourtneyReeceAuthor
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
When Sophie Scott is brutally dumped, she begins dreaming of a life in the 1950s and hearing an unfamiliar voice prodding her to seek revenge, leading her to wonder: Is she possessed or just pissed? 🌊On sub now🌊
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🥀RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME🥀 When Sophie Scott is brutally dumped, she begins dreaming of a life in the 1950s and hearing an unfamiliar voice prodding her to seek revenge, leading her to wonder: Is she possessed or just pissed? 🌊On sub now🌊 #swiftiepitch #na #os
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Song Lyrics for RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME🔪🌊🥀 (on sub now)
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
new mystery wip = new mood board🛟
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
If I were a character in RWYLM, I’d enjoy eating homemade pasta and drinking red wine at the local Italian restaurant, collecting shells on the gray beach when all the tourists had headed home, and yapping to the ghosts who still haunt Old Starbrook🌊🐚 #writingcommunity #onsubmission
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Attention Editors: When Sophie Scott is brutally dumped, she begins dreaming of a life in the 1950s and hearing an unfamiliar voice prodding her to seek revenge, leading her to wonder: Is she possessed or just pissed? 🌊On sub now🌊 #questpit #a #t #os #spec
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
BURN. IT. After Sophie is brutally dumped, she can’t stop hearing voices or dreaming of a life in the 1950’s, leaving her to wonder: Is she possessed or just pissed? 🥀🌊🔪 #posterpit #posterpitos #na #t
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Lowen parked her car in a small, empty lot next to the darkened woods, a chill of ominous foreboding tingling up her spine.  The faux antique, purposely-yellowed invitation in her lap beckoned for her to read its words one more time. #1stLinePit #IP #YA #PR
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
“I’m not a good person anymore.” #1stLinePit #A #P #T #OS (very soon!)
An Editor's Guide To
RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME
80k Word Thriller
Agent: Najla MamouPITCH
When Sophie is brutally dumped, she begins dreaming of a life in the 1950s and hearing an unfamiliar voice in her head prodding her to seek revenge.
As terrible accidents begin to befall those closest to her, she can't help but wonder:
Is she possessed or just pissed?From the time I was a child, I was taught to be agreeable.
Kind.
Quiet.
Showing emotions other than gratitude or cheerfulness was frowned upon. It was as if the adults knew that if little girls tapped into the frustration, the seething anger, the screaming resentment burrowing deep in our little chests before we could even articulate the injustices, the leering eyes, the condescension, and the double-standards feeding the flames, we would become too powerful.
So instead, they shamed us for our outbursts.
Told us we were out of control.
Hysterical.
Crazy.
Weak.
In return, we learned to control our fires, even as the men around us punched walls and screamed, exerting their emotions like powerful weapons to wield. But those sparks in our chests were never fully extinguished, and for some of us, they were left smouldering unattended while dangerous, mischievous kindling, carelessly strewn about, smiled as it caught flame.
EXCERPTCOMPS
right where you left me - bonus track
Taylor Swift
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trapped in the feelings of a
relationship that has ended
LISA
JEWELL
A NOVEL
NONE OF THIS IS TRUE
unrellable narrator
truth-bending
NOVEL
PAND
THEN
FELLN
ALIGIA
ELLIOTT
supernatural haureng
descent into madness
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“Did I say stand there and look stupid?” #unhingedpit
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🔪🎀🔪🎀 soon to be #onsub #unhingedpit
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
👻👻👻 soon to be #os #unhingedpit
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🔪🔪🔪 soon to be #os #unhingedpit
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
ahhhhhh!🩸🩸🩸🩸 don’t mind me over here crying
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
NONE OF THIS IS TRUE x WHAT LIES BENEATH When Sophie is brutally dumped, she can’t help but wonder: Is she possessed or just pissed? 🥀1950s flashbacks 🌊a coastal town with secrets 🔪female rage & revenge 🌊second-chance love 🥀a twist that will 👀 #PopUpPitE #LuckyPit
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
ADDIE LARUE x DIVINE RIVALS x DAWSON'S CREEK When Birdie & Lennon accidentally summon a trickster god, they unknowingly tangle the invisible threads of all three. 🌿coming of age 🌿multi-POV 🌿magical take on the string theory 🌿petty gods + politics #cupit #rofa
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
because it’s almost valentine’s day 🖤💋🔥🫦🥀
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Birdie has been falling into a cold darkness since she was a child. The only person who can pull her back is her best friend, Lennon. When the two summon a trickster god, they unknowingly tangle the invisible threads of all three. #questpit #q #rf #a
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Oops! Lowen accidentally breaks an ancient curse that changes the game for the supernatural world. 🫀found family 🫀woodsy, small town setting 🫀covens & magic 🫀hot, undead boys 🫀forced proximity 🫀messy love triangles 🫀multi-POV #questpit #soontobepublished #ya #pr
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
When Sophie is brutally dumped, a voice in her head prods her to seek revenge. Is she possessed, or just pissed? 🌊unreliable narrator 🌊1950s flashbacks 🌊a coastal town with secrets 🌊female rage & revenge 🌊second-chance love 🌊a twist that will 👀 #questpit #vague #t
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
there is a common thread (perhaps it is gold✨) weaving itself around all of my protagonists: the ghosts who keep them up at night and how they transform their fear into something magical. to anyone battling their own ghosts, i hope you’ll one day find solace in these pages🫶🏼 #writingcommunity
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
omg did i just get an email for 👀👀👀👀the call👀👀👀???? #writingcommunity
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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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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
ADDIE LARUE x DIVINE RIVALS x DAWSON'S CREEK When Birdie & Lennon accidentally summon a trickster god, they unknowingly tangle the invisible threads of all three. 🌿multi-POV 🌿magical take on the string theory 🌿petty gods + their politics 🌿villain-turned-softie #2025pit #a #f #r
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#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event @bluepit.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Thanks to @youdeservepit.bsky.social for running such a fantastic event yesterday! We saw many excellent pitches. The next event is #2025Pit, unlike #YouDeservePit & #BluePit this not a hype event. Only completed manuscripts and likes are reserved for agents and editors. Monday, the 27th!
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
ADDIE LARUE x DIVINE RIVALS Perhaps the darkness threatening to drown her wasn’t something from which she needed to be saved. Perhaps it was her magic to wield. 🌿two destined soulmates 🌿a god tasked with breaking them apart 🌿a villain-turned-softie 🌿a magical take on the string theory #2025pit
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
the vibes i bring to the function: ✨🪩⚰️🏹🐋🦮🌙🔪🔮🪐📖💀🫶🏼
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
my beta readers are down bad for my villain-turned-softie🔥🔥🔥
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
ADDIE LARUE x DIVINE RIVALS x DAWSON'S CREEK When Birdie & Lennon accidentally summon a trickster god, they unknowingly tangle the invisible threads of all three. 🌿coming of age 🌿multi-POV 🌿magical take on the string theory 🌿petty gods + politics #YouDeservepIt #q #a #f
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
3 fulls still out so! 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 🥀two women w/ haunting secrets 🔪a twist that will 👀 #YouDeservepIt #Q #T
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
ADDIE LARUE x DIVINE RIVALS x DAWSON’S CREEK 🌿 the accidental summoning of a trickster god 🌿love triangle 🌿late 90s nostalgia 🌿coming of age 🌿a magical take on the string theory 🌿enemies to lovers 🌿petty gods and their politics #youdeservepit #a #f #q
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
ADDIE LARUE x DIVINE RIVALS x DAWSON'S CREEK When Birdie & Lennon accidentally summon a trickster god, they unknowingly tangle the invisible threads of all three. 🌿coming of age 🌿multi-POV 🌿magical take on the string theory 🌿petty gods + politics #YouDeservepIt #q #a #f
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Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
attempting to create my #YouDeservepIt posts, but someone has other plans
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