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Donna Ho

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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 · 7h
I just entered #RevPit #10Queries. Enter now for a chance to win free feedback on your query and 1st 5 pages
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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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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
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
she risks her chance to escape the poverty of her sleepy beach town as their deepening connection forces her to question what he’s really racing against… and what comes next.
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
When a college student (18) on the brink of failing her freshman year agrees to help a recklessly optimistic stranger (18) complete a summer bucket list—including seeing the ocean, skydiving, and proving ghosts exist—
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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
just as a secretive coven begins a ritual to resurrect a soul-devouring warlock that won’t stop until it’s consumed everyone she loves.
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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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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Yes, please! Not sure how I missed this thread. :-)
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
followed!
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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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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Do we know what time Monday we can expect an announcement?
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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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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Do you know when you might be doing another round?
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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 · 06/04/2026
It’s not character art, but I played around with creating my own book cover (if I should eventually need it) and movie posters.
A movie poster style with two hands meeting in the middle. In the background there is a shadowed figure between trees. It says In Between in red letters.Greenish background with a foggy cemetery and two hands almost touching in the middle. Title: In Between
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Did you do it through NetGalley? I might be going down this path soon.
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I, for one, when I get to that point, would be SO DOWN for that type of help in the self-pub market.
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I understand. My point is that if there are fewer sales, more agents are going to have to pivot (at least for the time being). Why not tap into the self-published market and help those authors gain more traction? Especially if that segment is growing at such a fast rate compared to trad publishing.
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This is why I think agents should start pivoting to book promotion. Same setup, they only take on clients who've queried them and whose books they think they can sell. I think they could really do well with self-published authors who can’t or don’t want to market (hi!).
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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 · 31/03/2026
Maybe they don’t like them?
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I have one but it’s a ghost romance. I’ve been told it makes readers sob so hard into their pillow, their dogs have to check to see if they’re okay. 😭 🤪
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Uh, this is sad. I haven’t found my people unfortunately. My mom is the one I bounce my ideas off of and who reads my drafts. I love that about our relationship but I would LOVE to find a partner who shares in the writing process.
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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a man in a tank top is standing in a dark room with the words `` bbbring it ! '' written on the screen .
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Abandoned WIP: When her only friend disappears a peculiar thirteen-year-old girl uncovers a doorway to Faerie beneath her grandma’s house, but when the Faerie Queen takes an interest in the trespassing human children, she must lead her new friends out before they’re too changed to ever go home.
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Newest idea: When a college student on the brink of losing her scholarship agrees to help a reckless optimistic stranger complete a summer bucket list—including proving ghosts exist—she risks everything as their deepening connection forces her to question what he’s really racing against.
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I almost submitted this one: When two old flames are paired up to help plan their high school reunion, they must confront the fallout from their painful past or risk losing their last chance at rekindling the love they never truly let go.
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Logistics question, do the #10queries come from ALL submission an editor receives, or are they from the shortlisted submissions?
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Will we learn the results or only the final one you choose?
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Thank you! His stage name is “Handsome Pants!”
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This is my writing pal, Franklin. #revpitwaiting
A white Morkie with grey ears sitting on the back of a couch with his head slightly tilted, looking at the camera.
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Decided to write my logline first for my next WIP.
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