Mariann Evans

lowkey never thought I'd reach this point on a draft again but A GHOST OF A CHANCE is complete!

Now just a few random scenes to add in, a quick edit pass, and then it's away!

A woman with large purple glasses and a black top sits on a sofa. She is covered by a blanket. She is wearing a pair of knife-shaped earrings.

It’s me and my murder mystery inspired earrings against the world 🔪

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Six days left until our August Competition ends--the theme is "Resistance."

The challenge is to write a short story in 1000 words or under. It's friendly--the winner gets bragging rights and chooses the next theme!

If you're up for it, come join us below!

#writingcommunity #amwriting #writesky

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Since Fight For Your Write begins soon #writingcommunity (check our pinned post for more information), we thought we’d finally introduce ourselves!

We are Writer’s Block: a fiction-focused community on Discord that’s been active since 2016.

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A poster that reads: FIGHT FOR YOUR WRITE JUNE 1ST - JUNE 30TH WHAT IS #FFYW? Fight For Your Write is a month-long customizable writing challenge which takes place during June. The goal? Whatever you'd like! 25K words of your novel, thirty pages of script, five short stories, or just to write everyday—however you prefer to track your progress! HOW DO I PARTICIPATE? All you have to do is write! You can keep us updated on your progress using the #FFYW tag, follow @writersblockds for tips, questions, check-ins, and fun events, or join our Discord server at: discord.gg/writersblock. There are two small images on the poster - in the top-left corner above the heading is a spread of lined pages, and at the bottom of the poster is the Writer's Block icon; an open book with plane white pages, a dark blue hardcover, a golden-yellow built-in bookmark, and all of it is leaking blue ink.

Hi #amwriting and #writingcommunity! It is almost time for FIGHT FOR YOUR WRITE (#FFYW) to begin—who’s participating? This is our first year on Bluesky and we’re so looking forward to it! This event is ideal for anyone seeking a #nanowrimo replacement.

More details below! 👇

I LOVE the sound of this!!

📢 BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! 📢

my next YA mystery, THEY WANT US DEAD, releases on april 28, 2026!

if this sounds like something you'd enjoy, stay tuned, because more news is coming very soon! 💛🤍💜🖤

Join the Writer's Block Discord Server! Check out the Writer's Block community on Discord - hang out with 622 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

With the close of #nanowrimo, this is a shameless plug: Writer's Block hosts two similar events to NaNo. Fight For Your Write is a CYOG writing challenge in June and September. Hook to Book is a three month challenge in Mar, Apr, & May to write 75k. You are welcome to join us! #writingcommunity

#amQuerying: Grace & Jo Have Never Solved a Murder

🧣 Cozy mystery
👯‍♀️ Female main characters
🧠 Witty banter
🥲 Grief & friendship
🕵️‍♂️ Amateur sleuths

It's Valentine's Day and we love you all very much, so here, have a submission call! Submissions are open for Issue Ten: Rooted now until April 14th, and we're taking short stories, flash fiction, visual art, poetry, and cover art for middle grade and young adult readers. Where do your roots lie? 🤎

It’s Valentine’s Day 🥰

Give someone you love a book 🥰 and then leave them alone so that they can read it 🥰

A Publisher’s Marketplace deal memo: “T.R. Moore's The Gods Must Burn, a debut fantasy about a disgraced war hero sent to conquer a foreign island, only to unwillingly gain godhood when he saves a forest spirit—divinity that comes with a mandate to protect the island’s fierce, beautiful god from his own people, before they burn the island down, to Amy Borsuk at Solaris, for publication in early 2026, by Allegra Martschenko at Ladderbird Literary Agency (world english)”

✨ THE GODS MUST BURN ✨ is on your bookshelf SPRING 2026

Over the moon to announce that my Princess Mononoke-inspired, enemies to lovers eco-fantasy will be published with @solarisbooks.bsky.social next year! Dreams really do come true!

A photo of trees with the cover of HOLLOW under "official cover reveal"

Don't Let the Forest In meets The Whispering Dark in a queer YA cult horror following a recently diagnosed autistic teen who becomes enmeshed in a community of outcasts harboring sinister secrets. After a meltdown in her school cafeteria prompts an unwanted autism diagnosis, Cassie Davis moves back to her hometown in upstate New York, where her mom hopes the familiarity will allow Cassie to feel normal again. Cassie's never truly felt normal anywhere, but she does crave the ease she used to have with her old friends. Problem is that her friends aren't so eager to welcome her back into the fold. They extend an olive branch by inviting her on their backpacking trip to Hollow Ridge, in the upper reaches of the Adirondacks. But when a fight breaks out their first night, Cassie wakes to a barren campsite-her friends all gone. With severe weather approaching and nearing sensory overload, Cassie is saved by a boy named Kaleb, who whisks her away to a compound of artists and outcasts he calls the Roost. As Kaleb tends to her injuries, Cassie begins to feel-for the first time in her life-that she can truly be herself. But as the days pass, strange happenings around the Roost make Cassie question her instincts. Noises in the trees grow louder, begging the question: Are the dangers in the forest, on the trail, or in the Roost itself? In a world where autistic characters rarely get to be the hero of their own stories, Cassie Davis's one-step-back, two-steps-forward journey to unmasking makes Hollow as much a love letter to neurodiversity as it is a haunting tale you'll want to read with the lights on.

I am so thrilled to release the cover of my debut YA horror novel, HOLLOW, out with Peachtree Teen on September 30, 2025!!!

You know when you can just feel yourself becoming ill? 🥲 Please no, I don't have time for this... 🙃

A laptop open to a Google doc on a coffee shop table. A hot chocolate in a blue and pink ombré mug sits beside it, full of cream and two toasted marshmallows

Coffee shop writing is fast becoming my favourite!

An image of a drag queen in a dressing room looking at a ringlight forms the background. The text above reads: An agent's guide to THE DRAGNIFICENT SEVEN. 70,000 words. LGBTQ+ adult contemporary. James A Lyons - @jalwrites.

An image of a drag queen in a dressing room looking at a ringlight forms the background. The text on the left reads Pitch and Moodboard: While honouring his estranged uncle's dying wish to track down an iconic 1980's drag collective, a young gay man learns dark secrets about his adoptive mother that could alter his future. When she demands he stops his search for The Dragnificent Seven, he must choose—honour the legacy and activism of his uncle or return to the woman who raised him. On the right is a 9 square moodboard. In the four corners are images of drag queens. Top middle is an image of Soho, London at night. Bottom middle is a picture of a piece of colourful modern art. Middle left is a road map with a magnifying glass and set of car keys resting on top. Middle right is an image of a young man with medium length hair walking through a city at night. In the centre is a pile of newspaper cuttings with the words 'are the dragnificent seven back?" written over the top in a fake headline style.

An image of a drag queen in a dressing room looking at a ringlight forms the background. Across the centre are six comp titles. The first three are the books Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun, Boy Like Me by Simon James Green and The Boy Made the Difference by Matt Bishop. The last three are the films The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, It's a Sin and Queer as folk. Under the pictures are bullet points with the themes Forced proximity, road trip comedy, found family, rivals to lovers, LGBTQ+ history and toxic family relations.

An image of a drag queen in a dressing room looking at a ringlight forms the background. In the centre is a cut out of a sample from the manuscript which reads: From a doorway behind, a queen strides into view. Their tall wig reaches high. One arm is stretched against the frame, the other on their hip. The dress is mermaid green with dashes of gold like individual lightning bolts. Everything in my peripheral vision is sucked away. In their mouth, a long cigarette holder sits empty. Their dark eyeshadow making their bright green eyes pop from their skull. The queen strides elegantly across the reception in her ruby red, knee length platforms, before sitting on the desk. They click their tongue twice as they look us up and down.. “Hi boys.” Their voice is sugary sweet, but as rich as cocoa. “Princess Thigh-Ana, absolute delight for you to meet me.” “Hey,” says Jack. He beams, nudging me in the ribs with a bony elbow. “Hi, hey.” I can only stutter, my left leg shaking. This is real. The Dragnificent Seven are real and one-sixth of the remaining members are sat in front of me

An agent's guide to THE DRAGNIFICENT SEVEN:
My HERE WE GO AGAIN x IT'S A SIN LGBTQ+ contemporary.

I now #amquerying so if you've liked a pitch for this project, it will be in your inbox. If you'd like to see it too, let me know!
Some full and partials are currently out there! 💃

#writingcommunity

My god I need this book in my life!

Of course! Discord is probs better for me cos I very rarely use Insta but we can defo connect there!

Imposter syndrome, pain flares, and work have all been conspiring against me lately, but progress on edits has finally resumed.

YES! God knows I need some external motivation to get this book edited!

I am manifesting for you too! I am so excited for more books from you!

I 100% need this!

Bonus day off today because there were no trains running after Storm Éowyn but the words did not happen.

How I wish my ADHD didn't run on "oh the first draft is done, the task is finished" logic because... the task is definitely not finished 🥲

Ahhh this sounds amazing!!

Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky. Here is a great list of #litmags to follow!

PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER!

#writer #writingcommunity

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I just want to write my silly little stories in peace but I keep getting waylaid by stupid things like “having to work for a living” and “contributing to society” and “being a functional human being”

I will keep everything crossed for you!!

Well I would 100% pick this up to read! All the best for the query trenches, I am SURE someone is gonna snap this up soon!

A nine square moodboard. In the four corners are images of drag queens. Central is the title The Dragnificent Seven. Top middle is an image of Soho, London at night. Middle right is a yellow VW Beetle car. Bottom middle is a young man walking away along a path with the sun illuminating him. Middle left is a coastal seafront.

Would you honour someone’s dying wish if it'd tear apart your family?

When Harri starts to reunite a late uncle's iconic drag troupe, he learns the truth about his adoptive mother. Now he must decide if six drag queens are worth more than the woman who first gave him a home.

#P2Ppit #A #UW #Q #C

OBSESSED ❤️