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Donna Ho

@dhoedits.bsky.social
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Author ✍️ | Fiction editor 📚 | Querying—Debut YA Paranormal Romance (Completed): She hated seeing ghosts…until she fell for one

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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Hi, #booksky! I’m getting ready to publish under the name Cassie Cooper and need a little help getting it across the Kickstarter finish line. I’m thiiiiiiiiiis close! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cas...
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Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"A perfect summer romance"? ARC readers *really* do say it much better than I do! Thank you @ treddenreader! 🫶 Oh, and yes: ARCs are still open. Sure you don't want one? The 🔗 is in my bio... #BookSky
Instagram post, captioned "July Reading Wrap": Standout vibes; 5 books, amongst which Only One Summer in Berlin: "A perfect summer romance"
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Indie Author's Log Day 3 We're inching toward our destination. Yesterday brought small but significant progress. Two new backers joined the mission. Baby steps. End log. #indieauthor #kickstartercampaign #yaparanormal www.kickstarter.com/projects/cas...
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In Between: A Thrilling YA Paranormal Romance
Help me put my swoony ghost thriller in the hands of readers.
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Hiya! 👋 I’m getting ready to launch my self-publishing journey. If you love YA fiction, contemporary romance, ghost stories, and impossible love, I’d love to have you along for the ride. Follow and subscribe—there’s a debut novel on the way. 📚👻 Pen name: Cassie Cooper
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Wow! I’m just floored. Within a short window of announcing that I would self-publish my series, my Substack subscription rate has shot up 150% Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I *might* embarrass myself tomorrow by showing you the covers I designed for my book IN BETWEEN. Coming soon to a Substack near you. BOLO. Stay tuned to bask in my public humiliation. (That was your hint to subscribe) cassiecooperwrites.substack.com
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Cassie Cooper Writes | Substack
I write fiction, not in any particular genre, but I am particularly inspired by young love and deep emotions. Click to read Cassie Cooper Writes, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
New Substack article out now! If you missed my last post (because I didn’t post it here, lol), I’ve recently decided to self-publish In Between, Book 1 of the Seance Society series. open.substack.com/pub/cassieco...
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Introducing In Between
Or, the book (series) I'm choosing to self-publish
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
For my new project I’m just starting. #campmap #CRPDrayads
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a kermit the frog is holding a piece of paper
Alt: Kermit the Frog is holding a map and looking confused about which way to go.
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I’m a little late to this one. Took a day away from SM. For my RevPit project #campmap #CRPDrayads
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a man is crawling through a large pipe in the dirt
Alt: a man is crawling out of a large pipe in the woods.
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I write under the pen name Cassie Cooper and I’m actually working on a new project. It’s beach ghosty YA story. THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END X PLACES WE’VE NEVER BEEN
 #campkickoff #camprevpit
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MG Arnaiz @mgarnaiz.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Blood and Starlight A bounty hunter. A broken system. One war she can’t walk away from. Some contracts pay credits. This one demands everything. Space opera | Found family dynamics | Women in tech Thanks to my sister for modeling the FMC for the poster. #PosterPit #NA #SF #R #Q
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Sofia Trepp @sofiatrepp.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Haunted by her ruined reputation, Ró joins a heart-eating cult to hunt down the one creature whose heart can buy her life back. 🫀 Cultish magic 💀 Deadly personality tests 🧌 Scandinavian folklore 🖤 Romance á la OUABH WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL x YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES #YA #F #R #H #Q #PosterPit
A film poster, depicting a woman with a dramatic red veil covered in Nordic runes, for Feed Me Your Heart, a YA fantasy/romance/horror novel about a girl addicted to magical hearts who has to hunt a water spirit to restore her shattered reputation
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K.L. Lempereur is Querying! @kllempereur.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
A brutal god who consumes the life-force of living things catches up to the heroes who tried to stop her, and takes their daughter as a trophy. Now trapped on the god's ship, Calypso must get close enough to find out her ultimate plans without being consumed in the process. #QuestPit #YA #A #SFF #W
An aesthetic collage for this story idea, featuring neons, sapphics, and space imagery.
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Dawn Berkoski @dawnberkoski.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Inspired by Monty Python's Life of Brian, Willow, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. #PosterPit #RF #NA #Q 🧙‍♂️A wizard struggling with his powers 🗡️A GNC thief with a grudge 🤪 Dysfunctional found family 🏹 Lots of armed men 🥕Cursed Carrot Fields 💘 Antiheroes find true love?!? WHEN REGULAR QUESTS WON’T DO
Movie Poster for the novel, Another Quest, written by Dawn Berkoski.

Artwork by Shelley Leiweke

Depicted, is a fantasy inspired forest with jewel-toned falling leaves. In the distance, a medieval castle can be seen, and further still, the mountains where Zander, the protagonist of the story, lives.  

And in the center of the magical forest, sitting on a tree stump, is Zander’s prized wizard’s hat, now dirty and worn with an arrow jutting through it. 

The copy reads. 

ACTION ADVENTURE
MAGIC AND MAYHEM
MEDIEVAL FANTASY
COMING OF AGE
YOUNG LOVE 

ANOTHER QUEST
PRESENTED BY DAWN BERKOSKI
NOMINATED FOR BEST COMEDY
BEST STUNT ENSEMBLE

A YOUNG WIZARD'S JOURNEY TO RECONCILE HIS PAST GOES SIDEWAYS WHEN HE IS ROBBED AND FINDS HIMSELF IN A CURSED AND DECREPIT VILLAGE WHERE THINGS AREN'T ALWAYS AS THEY APPEAR...

WHAT SEEMED TO BE A STRAIGHTFORWARD QUEST TURNS INTO ANOTHER, AND HE MUST RELY ON THE LAST PEOPLE HE EVER WOULD HAVE CHOSEN TO KEEP MOVING FORWARD AND REACH HIS DESTINATION.

QUERYING NOW

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Jen Hall Smith - ✍️🌙✨ @jenhallsmith.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
THE LUNARIA NOW SHE IS WITCH X KPDH X A RIVER ENCAHNTED #NA #A #Q #F #R #posterpit 110k fantasy romance ND REP In a land where magic is forbidden, power blooms in outcast Tallitha, forcing her to flee to a mysterious place of safety & evade the clutches of the dreaded Witchkind hunters.
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
IF I HAVE TO BE HAUNTED x THE INVOCATIONS X Dark Secrets X Paranormal Romance X Ghosts & Witches X Trust No one #PosterPit #Q #SPF #P #T #YA (poster credit: KT Carlisle)
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Samantha Lebans @samanthalebans.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
#PosterPit #Q #A #R DEFINITELY NOT A BUCKET LIST Adult Contemporary Romance / 85K 🚙Tension-filled road trip 💉Illness rep 🌄Coastal Canadian landscape ⛴️Boat ride in costume ✍️(Not) a bucket list
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
IF I HAVE TO BE HAUNTED x THE INVOCATIONS When her missing lab partner turns up as a ghost begging for help, a prickly teen medium determined to ignore both the living and the dead is dragged back into a gift she’s spent years suppressing— #PosterPit #Q #SPF #P #T #YA
A shadowy figure in between tall trees is in the background. Two hands almost touching, one being translucent and double-exposed (meaning ghost) are in the for front. Title is: In Between.
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dane | 최대나 | author & editor ✨️ @dcmdraper.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
hey #RevPit fam 💛 now that the excitement and anticipation of the day have calmed down, I want to offer a few reminders for you all this evening, if you have the patience to read through them! 🧵 below:
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dane | 최대나 | author & editor ✨️ @dcmdraper.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
GUESS WHAT TODAY IS #RevPit WRITERS ✨️👀 winners will be announced at 12 PM EST!
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kermit the frog from the muppet show is dancing on a stage in front of a red curtain .
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Last night, I was thinking about the LI for my new WIP and got all teary. I considered (for just a sec) not writing the book at all because I don't want to have to kill him in the end. Not sure I can handle that kinda trauma. Why do we do this to ourselves? LOL! #amwriting
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jerry from tom and jerry is crying while holding a bottle of tomato juice in his mouth .
ALT: jerry from tom and jerry is crying while holding a bottle of tomato juice in his mouth .
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
To any of my friends here who also follow me on X… I’m locked out of my account, so any activity currently ISN’T ME!
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I think these people are confusing prologues and epilogues with forewords and afterwords. And I think they skipped a few days of the story structure unit in English 101.
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
When a college student on the brink of losing her scholarship agrees to help a recklessly optimistic stranger complete a summer bucket list—including proving ghosts exist—she risks everything as their deepening connection forces her to question if a future together is even possible. #WIP
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Op! Just plotted another story that’s bound to make me sob. 😭 🏝️ 🌊 👻 #amwriting
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
#RevPit submission done! Whew. And now we wait…
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
If IN BETWEEN were a Swiftie song: "RUIN THE FRIENDSHIP" x "YOU BELONG WITH ME" but with ghosts and roles flipped. 👻🔮 Reluctant Medium 🔥🕰️ Slowburn Friends to Lovers 🤝🏡Found Family 💀💕Cinnamon Roll Ghost Boyfriend 🕯️✨Seances #SwiftiePitch #YA #SPF #T
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
If IN BETWEEN were a Swiftie song: "RUIN THE FRIENDSHIP" x "LOVE STORY" but with ghosts and roles flipped. 👻🔮 Reluctant Medium 🔥🕰️ Slowburn Friends to Lovers 🤝🏡Found Family 💀💕Cinnamon Roll Ghost Boyfriend 🕯️✨Seances #SwiftiePitch #YA #SPF #T Poster cred: @ktcarlisle on X
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
One positive thing I can say about the querying process is that, even if I don’t get an agent or a book deal, it has made my story better. I would never have scrutinized it as much as I have if I weren’t querying. #amquerying #writingcommunity
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Querying a YA paranormal love story. Grumpy FMC falls for ☀️ ghostboy. Seances, cemeteries (sorry, no graveyards!), inherited magic, and, of course, an eclipse-fueled resurrection ritual to bring back an evil that could destroy her town. Funny at times, deeply emotional, and unafraid to get messy.
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Seriously considering beta testing my story on WattPad, then self-publishing. WTF not?
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Dive into In Between, the first book in my YA Paranormal series that follows 16-year-old Annabelle Croft as she learns the dark truth behind why she can see the dead while trying to save her stupid cute lab-partner-turned-ghost from a fate worse than death. #firstlines #yaparanormal #booksforteens
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I understand the algorithm about as well as I understood what made people popular in high school. 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Woke up from a much needed nap with this in my head. Pardon my craft, I was half asleep. What happens when a wounded girl kisses her BFFs empath brother.
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The Princess Bride has been, from the moment I first watched it as a child, my favorite movie of all time. Along with my GOAT, he has been responsible for so many other amazing films. The news of Rob Reiner's tragic passing along with his wife, is just shocking. #RIPRobReiner
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
When a successful author befriends you on X, eyebrows rise and credulity wears thin. But, I’m riding the train until the next stop. Let’s see where this goes.
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Boy, oh boy! The level of ‘expertise’ of some people in the writing community on X is astounding.
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Success! I got my manuscript below 90k and I don't hate myself! Now, #litagent question: Update outstanding queries about reduced word count? Or no?
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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 07/11/2025
Dear white people: Please teach your kids that saying someone has "chinky eyes" is just as racist as calling them a "chink". Regards, an Asian Dad
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Thoughts on this format for pitch events? Or just sharing about my WIP and Querying projects? #writesky #amquerying #amwriting
A ghost-blue teenage boy on the left and a blonde teenage girl on the right face each other in profile against a dark, misty background. The boy looks sad and longing; the girl looks shocked and breathless. Center text reads “Snippets from: In Between.” Beneath that is a romantic quote about him wishing he could kiss her, and her heart feeling like it might melt. Header text at the top says “96K | YA Paranormal Romance — a standalone with series potential.”
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Sixteen-year-old Annabelle Croft wants everyone to leave her alone—especially the dead. But when Will, her golden-boy lab partner, goes missing and then returns as a ghost, this prickly medium has to figure out what happened—if only to get him to go away. #FiFrevpit #mockpit
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Wordle 1,602 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟩🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Been a minute since I played.
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
#WIPSnips #writersky
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Oooh, instead of working on Book 2 WIP, I went back and tweaked some on IN BETWEEN. #amquerying #amwriting #WIPsnippets
The clouds seemed to drop from the sky and settle around the weathered headstones. She ran deeper into the cemetery, into the darkness gathering around her. Trees loomed overhead, their branches pressing down like twisted fingers trying to catch the moonlight, fracturing it and casting the graveyard—cemetery, she corrected herself—in an eerie, red-tinged glow.
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
This sounds fantastic and heart-wrenching!
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Katharine Van Amburg @kvanamburg.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Spooky pastel sapphic Florida you have my whole heart!! 💖👻
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Dahlya is writing @dillydahly.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Exsanguine Cryptids She must face danger, folkloric monsters, and the government agents responsible for releasing them in order to reunite with her younger brother before the country collapses- or one of them dies. 🥰sapphic romance Stranger>Friends>❤️‍🔥 💕slow burn 🚗 road trip #questpit #W #YA #PR #SF
Exsanguine Cryptids
Dahlya Byrne
a YA supernatural sci-fi apocalypsePitchA vengeful government set on reasserting its authority through violence and misinformation disrupts the life of 19 year old Xiomara. Armed with nothing but the determination of an eldest daughter, she travels across the US facing folkloric monsters and government agents alike, to reunite with her estranged younger sibling. 
Along the way, she becomes the unwilling leader to Jada, an old classmate she can’t quite seem to get a grasp on (or out of her head) and Rally, an older, yet surprisingly well equipped, woman with an affinity for conspiracies and substances of all kind. Eight O'Clock in the Morning
Ray Faraday Nelson
*Subliminal Messages, Propaganda, Lizard People
Veil Haven by Anne M. Kelley
* Cryptids, Lies & Secrets, LGBTQ+, Diverse
The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro
*Mexican Folklore, Family Secrets, Generational Trauma I walk with my hands stretched out before me. One step. Two steps. Three steps. No wall. Four steps. No wall. Five steps. Nothing.
The air feels different. Warmer. Yet, a chill runs through me, prickling from inside my skin. My neighbor had a dog I often walked, Pancho. She didn’t pay much for how bad the dog was. It pulled and pulled on its leash, if not for being the size of a shoebox, it likely would have dragged me along with it, taken off on the hot streets of New Mexico. Dragged me past the dirt roads and onto the concrete sidewalk on the way to the park. My neighbor was old, she didn’t often get to grooming the dog. It was scraggly, fat, with long long nails. Often I would close my eyes as we walked, listening to the birds, wind, and scratching of Pancho’s nails against the floor. The sound emanating from the murk of this alley was strikingly similar.
A sixth step forward is not an option. But would the wall behind me still exist? The warmth ahead of me grew to a heat that roasted my skin and made each breathe an effort. Sweat dripped down my face and pooled on my upper lip. How long have I stood here?I’m reminded of the summer heat wave I spent locked outside. I often laid in the yard, too tired, too hot, too thirsty, to move even to the shade of a nearby bush. It grew flowers of a pale pink and muted red. Before that week, me and my mother often picked these flowers to make into tea. I didn’t mind that she would throw my picks to the side, as I could collect them to decorate my dresser top, enjoying the scents every morning until she scolded me for bringing garbage inside and hoisted them out. Maybe the flowers were purple, actually. Yes I remember, the flowers were a deep purple, just like the vase I threw at her head. Just like the blood that spilled out of it. The air was hot like the blood that spilled out of it. It was so hot. Like the air during the heatwave, like the blood of the vase, like the purple of my mother’s head. Like the-
I hear a scream I…
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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @arachnereid.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Experience a vision of transformation through the ruins of the former US. Using the power of meditation, archaic tech, and ancient survival skills, an empath-scholar's quest to save her people is a narrative guide on how to thrive in civilization’s aftermath. 🌱 #A #Q #S #SFF #questpit #clifi
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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @elizabethtitus.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🔥 WHAT will GROW from the ASHES of our fallen civilization? 🕸️ a post collapse adventure of psychic powers and nurturing community 🔮 journey through the tarot across the former US, with unexpected twists 🌱 Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built #A #Q #S #SFF #questpit #hopepunk #clifi
 a Death tarot card I drew titled "What rises from the ashes" with death on a moped, a sun tarot card, a lovers tarot card, a color Hermit tarot card (I did all the art)

quotes: "Every end is a beginning" - Tai Gong Diao
"Light shines brightest in the deepest dark!" - Jim Butcher

a variety of photos from my travels (+one dilapidated shack I did not capture myself) of reflective water in various landscapes and urban decay and plants growing through, swamp, fire, bridges, a map of the US with shrunken coastline over a sunset sky with leaves growing from dead branches


elemental magic
visions
survival skills
climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation 
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk
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Rebeccah Sheridan @rsheridan92.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
THE SLOW BURN is an 82k word contemporary romcom featuring: 🔥 Slow burn 🤷 "Keep it casual, and no one gets hurt" 🏘️ Small town 🚒 MMC in uniform 💜 Found family 🎄 Holiday vibes #questpit #q #a #r #amquerying
She's an event planner up for a promotion. 
He's a firefighter, and her dad is his chief. 
Together, they're planning the fire department's holiday gala. 
They're about to find out how complicated "casual" can be.
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