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vitoria 🌊🪞

@lilmissbooks.bsky.social
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writer of slice-of-life fantasy & grief-filled magic, as well as pretty much anything shiny that catches my eye. rep: hayley steed @ janklow & nesbit uk -she/her/ela 🇧🇷

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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
introducing the characters in my wip but they are: 🛻a psychosomatic pestilence who only feels relief when she makes others sick 🛻war as a traumatized kid whose fear and anxiety manifest as anger 🛻famine is lowkey a cult leader and thinks fasting saves souls 🛻death has disappeared
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
the horsemen reunited in a small diner in the Middle of Nowhere, Brazil
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
me: I hope this wip isn’t too dark since I’m writing about the end of the world and the horsemen and childhood trauma and being taken away from the only life you’ve ever known the wip in question:
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
how to tell the ao3 gods that I have an important test tomorrow and no other way to procrastinate
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
hopping back on here to update my bio (my sapphic, makeup-obsessed zombies got me an agent 🎉) and try to actually stick around this time maybe? 👀
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
it’s only february and I already need a vacation. genuinely don’t know how people who live in places that don’t have carnaval make it through this first part of the year without a break 😅
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
“worldbuilding” but the world is my mc’s parents and the building is killing them
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
an agent’s guide to 🪞wip, my odd little book about grief, how we try to uphold our mother’s beauty standards even when we feel like we’re dying, and the Luto Family Funeral Home #questpit #A #SFF #querying #Q #LGBTQ
an agent's guide to HOW TO HIDE DEATH AND OTHER IMPERFECTIONS
AN 80K WORDS COZY CONTEMPORARY FANTASYPITCH / COMPS
WARM BODIES MEETS SIX FEET UNDER WHEN A RECENTLY TURNED ZOMBIE MUST LEARN TO
NAVIGATE UNDEATH WHILE WORKING IN HER GRANDMA'S FUNERAL HOME AND USING MAKEUP TO HIDE HER (UN)DEAD LITTLE SECRET, BUT HER DEDICATION TO KEEPING HER LIFE EXACTLY AS IT WAS BEFORE HER TURNING IS TESTED WHEN A BAR OWNER AND FELLOW ZOMBIE STARTS
BRINGING FOOD TO THEIR MOURNERS

underneath the text, there are pictures of 4 books:
The very secret society of irregular witches
Emily Wilde’s encyclopaedia of faeries
The house in the cerulean sea
The honey witchTROPES / VIBES
HOLD YOU WHILE YOU CRY KIND OF COZY
SAPPHIC ZOMBIES FALLING IN LOVE
BLACK CAT X GOLDEN RETRIEVER
BADASS EX-BIKER TURNED FUNERAL HOME OWNER GRANDMA SIDE CHARACTER
FOUND FAMILY & REFINDING YOUR BLOOD FAMILY
DEATH NOTICES AS A SLIGHT MULTIMEDIA BUT I END UP CRYING AS I WRITE THEM BECAUSE I'M NOW IN LOVE WITH THESE DEAD CHARACTERS (THAT WERE LITERALLY CREATED TO DIE...)FIRST CHAPTER
DEATH SMELLED LIKE THE MAKEUP AISLE IN A CONVENIENCE STORE.
SICKLY SWEET, VANILLA SCENTED AND WITH ONE TOO MANY DROPS OF FORMALDEHYDE, ARABELLA HAD MASTERED THE ART OF IGNORING THE WAY IT CLUNG TO EVERY INCH OF THE
LUTO FAMILY FUNERAL HOME AS A CHILD.


(one of)
MY FAVORITE QUOTE
LIFE WASN'T FAIR, NEITHER WAS DEATH, BUT GRIEF WAS THE THING THAT LINGERED IN THE MIDDLE- SACRED, UNAVOIDABLE, AND THE ONLY TIME IN A PERSON'S LIFE WHERE THEY COULD HOLD OUT THEIR BLEEDING SOULS AND NOT BE TOLD IT NEEDED TO BE STITCHED UP IMMEDIATELY
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
EMILY WILDE x SIX FEET UNDER 🪞lesbian zombies falling in love in a funeral home 🪞makeup used to hide undeath 🪞think women’s fiction but with a speculative ✨twist✨ 🪞grounded contemporary fantasy but most of the characters are under the ground #questpit #A #SFF #querying
a 3x3 moodboard. All of the pictures are black and white, showing an empty classroom, kinda running in front of an old looking building, an empty train, a woman dressed as cupid, old cars, a tattoo shop, the words “the end” over closed curtains like in an old movie, two girls with their arms out of a car. In the center, there’s a brown background with the words “welcome to the luto family funeral home” in white
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I’m seeing a lot of people starting to query so here’s my unsolicited advice: write down what you love about your book. little things, big things, it doesn’t matter. write them down and hold them close because the trenches have a funny way of making you forget them
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
starting a first draft and loving these characters and all the scenes you’re excited to write yet being sad that one day you’ll be tired of them and rereading the same thing over and over is such a unique writer emotional rollercoaster
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
was reading an article for school and started thinking about how it sounded like something emily wilde would write and that might be the best example of voice in writing I can give people
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
idk, for me, personally, if it’s an enemies-to-lovers situation and the “betrayal” happened before they get together then it’s not a betrayal because there were… enemies
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
drafting might actually be happening for the first time in a while but I can’t get too excited or my brain will be spooked into another writer’s block
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
was having a semi productive drafting day but somewhere along the way I started researching the history of canada’s rock exhibitions 🫠
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
the freedom of writing something absolutely terrible and it being okay because it’s a ✨first draft✨
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
shockingly, the tv show everyone said would make me cry did, indeed, make me cry
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
this is my official petition to have every author who has a pet in their book put a disclaimer in the beginning that says wether or not they make it
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
born to watch happy endings, forced to watch as the character constantly falls for the wrong guy while the love interest I like slowly loses her 😭
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
officially moved to StoryGraph this year and while I’ve enjoyed it so far and definitely think it’s better than gr, I wish they had an option to specify age group while browsing books and that we could create and share book lists
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
reading a book where the character has an elderly dog companion and she’s starting to worry about it more. I (recently lost my own elderly dog) will simply not survive if the dog doesn’t make it through the rest of the series
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
was so okay with killing my darlings until the darling in question was the set up for one of my favorite premises that I had written my favorite first line for and regularly daydreamed about
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
reading books you don’t think are good is actually really useful as a writer. I’ve learnt just as much reading “bad” books as I have reading ones I thought were masterpieces
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
going on the StoryGraph website and discovering they have the option to join readalongs with random people and there are conversations separated by which part of the book you’ve read to avoid spoilers. this might be their best feature yet
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
YOU GUYS QUERYTRACKER PATRICK FIXED THE FORMATTING ISSUES IN QUERY MANAGER AND NOW IT KEEPS THE ITALICS, BOLD, UNDERLINES, ETC.. ENDING 2024 WITH A BANG
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
hardest part about growing up, for me, is letting go of the person I thought I should/would be and allowing a new, happier, healthier version to exist in its place without truly believing that I killed the adult younger me would’ve loved
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
wrote a first line for something new and that’s how I know an idea is becoming an actual wip
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
still missing two months but I made a little canva graph cause I’m nothing if not someone who loves to waste my time on that website (adding the blank template in case anyone wants to use it to share the upcoming releases they’re excited about as well!)
A pastel colored chart titled “2025 in book releases” where there are 12 boxes organized in 4 rows of 3, each labeled with their respective month of the year.

January (small firework decorations inside the box): the last bookstore on earth
February: Emily wilde’s compendium of lost tales
March (has some confetti over the name of the month to celebrate carnaval): the keeper of lonely spirits, sunrise on the reaping, everything is tuberculosis
April: all the noise at once
May: there is no book title in the box
June: mastery of monsters, Vesuvius 
July (has a small cupcake and birthday hat on either end of the box to celebrate that it’s my birthday month): a witch’s guide to magical innkeeping
August: katabasis
September: the maiden and her monster
October (has a pumpkin and bat, both still with the canva watermark): when they burned the butterfly
November: the sacred space between
December (has a Santa hat on the one of the edges of the box): there is no title
A pastel colored chart titled “2025 in book releases” where there are 12 boxes organized in 4 rows of 3, each labeled with their respective month of the year. It is a blank template, with nothing written in each box. In the left top corner there is a small watermark with the usernames @lil_miss_books and @lilmissbooks.bsky.social

The box for January has a small firework decorations inside the box, March has some confetti over the name of the month to celebrate carnaval, October has a pumpkin and bat, both still with the canva watermark, December has a Santa hat on the one of the edges of the box
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
trying to find one book release for each month of 2025 so I can preorder now as my holiday gift to myself and get little presents throughout the year and so far I’m missing: may august september november december so if anyone has any suggestions 👀
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
boundaries aren’t enough, I need everyone in my family to read and agree to an interactions terms and conditions this holiday season
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
happy 5 days til Christmas. if it’s not too late to ask for gifts then Arabella (the mc in 🪞wip) would like something that defeats the sapphic need to be hyperfeminine so no one suspects who you truly are (except we use zombies & makeup as a metaphor for that in 🪞wip)
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
the way I always get bad new on my email when I check it on my phone vs always get good news when I check on the computer needs to be studied cause it’s been 100% of the time after I started noticing
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
being an adult sucks, actually
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cass biehn | VESUVIUS out now 🌋 @cassbeewrites.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I GET TO WRITE MORE BOOKS! 🌿✨ Beyond honored to announce my second YA novel found its forever-home with my incredible publisher Peachtree Teen. THOUGH THIS BE MADNESS has so much of Me in it. I’m incredibly thankful to be offered a space to be so vulnerable.
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
there isn’t a single sweet treat anywhere in this apartment 😭 this is not a home
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
nothing frustrated me more as a kid than trying to explain that the winx girls were actually weaker than their enemies because it took six girls to defeat 1-3 people
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
just realized I’ve never posted a snippet here so please perceive the beginning of 🪞wip, the book I’m currently querying!
Death smelled like the makeup aisle in a convenience store. Sickly sweet, vanilla scented and with one too many drops of formaldehyde, Arabella had mastered the art of ignoring the way it clung to every inch of the Luto Family Funeral Home. It was a habit she'd developed as a young child, waiting while her mom made the dead look pretty enough to be seen one last time and as her grandma comforted the grieving as well as she could, which wasn't very well at all. As an adult, she'd always hoped it'd no longer be needed.

Now, as she stood in one of the well placed corners in their viewing room, the particularly odd talent was her lifeline.

"You didn't use enough blush," her grandma hissed to her, eyes never leaving the small stage where the casket was set up. "I told you to use more blush, there can never be too much."
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
what I expected: cozy fantasy, maybe a zombie apocalypse, regular found family what I got: funerals every other chapter that made me cry, there’s no apocalypse- only zombies, the found family also has refinding your blood family after a tragedy
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
my cat has started slamming her full body into the back of my laptop screen to close it whenever she wants attention and honestly, I respect the dedication cause she’s so small it takes her a couple tries to get it done
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
having to shelve a book sucks but that feeling of reading it after some time has passed and you haven’t edited it or sent a query for it or reread it 1000x in a row and being able to enjoy the story and characters without wondering if it’s good enough is truly magical
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
when they ask me why I haven’t helped around the house but I just finished updating all our profile characters in streaming services??? do they think we just magically have matching profile pictures?
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
THE VERY SECRET SOCIETY OF IRREGULAR WITCHES x IZOMBIE x SIX FEET UNDER 🪞slice-of-life, cozy fantasy 🪞zombies using makeup to hide their undeath 🪞unbury your lesbians 🪞a funeral home as the main setting, but it’s a lot less depressing than it seems 🪞grumpy x sunshine 🪞🇧🇷 culture #cheerpit #A #Q #F
moodboard with a beige and black and white color scheme. it has haunted looking pictures, including a black cat stuck on a tree, an empty art gallery and a hand laying over a skull
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
love calling my works fantasy when there’s exactly 1 (one) small fantasy thing or creature in it and the rest is just them living in our world
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
as a kid I was told to “stop walking and stay where you are” whenever I got lost and that pretty much sums up how my life has been going lately
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𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 🍃 @charscrawls.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
just a casual reminder that yes, what you’re currently writing is worthwhile. you’re not wasting time. creativity is NEVER a waste
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
in desperate need of a querymanager genre that says “basically women’s fiction but with a magical background” or “romantasy if it was women’s fiction instead of romance”
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
me, after writing the entire first chapter of a new wip: you know what, maybe I should figure out the main character’s name
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I don’t want a computer to write my books for me, I want past me to not have thought “future me will fix this” every time she realized there was a plothole and for future me to not think “I’ll figure it out later” whenever it is time to fix said plothole
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
okay but do option books get option books? like if you sell a book and the publisher picks up the option, does that book then get an option? how much option would an option book option if an option book could option, basically?
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vitoria 🌊🪞 @lilmissbooks.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
recently learned what posts on here are I called and I will, unfortunately, keep calling my posts clouds instead of skeets
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