V. IVAN🫀

A black square graphic that’s been decorated with various halftone stickers of trash items in shades of olive, moss and puke green. The graphic is an announcement for a new author pitch event called SLUDGEPIT. Info: Sludgepit Feb 17th 2025 - all day A new LGBTQIA2S+ pitch event for the dark, taboo, morally gray, and stigmatized. ★NO AI ★If you think your book fits here, then it does. ★An author connection event ★Use the hashtag #sludgepit along with genre tags (#h for horror, #r for romance, #WIP for wips, #P for published, etc) ★WIPS & published works welcome ★Limit 3 per pen name ★Remember to support each other by liking, reposting, and commenting on your peer’s posts ★Don’t forget alt text for accesibility!

How do we feel about a pitch event for the freaks & weirdos?

I’m seeing a demand even within my own community for censorship of my peers. Increasing restrictions of rights & legislation against trans people will not stop & spare “the good ones”
Celebrate your dark fiction
#SLUDGEPIT

three copies of In The End, You Kill Us Both by V. Ivan with differing covers. The first has a hand drawn cover featuring two individuals screaming at each other, the second cover features a brown, black and orange image of a burning vehicle at night, and the third is the final cover, featuring a faded collage of a red beater truck, a drawn skull, a woman's profile, and earwigs.

lining up my editing copies like a proud dad 🍷🩸

imsad. graphite on paper

“How do you write so much?”

Simple! If I do not participate in the acts of creation I will explode

✨🌈 The more you know 🌈✨

a nine image collage featuring (left to right, top to bottom) an abandoned car with a tree growing through the windshield, bloodied hands held before a bloodied white nightgown, a car sinking in a small body of water surrounded by trees, a billboard which reads "sin is like rat poison: tastes good, but is a killer", an image of a teary eyed girl laying on her side with messy dark hair, an old painting depicting a resting arm bleeding from an unknown location, a group of young individuals walking back-on into the woods, a close image of an alligator's teeth, and a very dark image of an opening trail leading into the trees.

PREACHER'S DAUGHTER x THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME ⛪️

after her family moves to a secluded stretch of the Bible Belt, a seventeen-year-old apostate grows infatuated with a group of teenage blasphemers who worship a long-dead local steeped in bloody folklore.

#YouDeservepIt #A #WIP

RAREST PERISH 80’s paranormal romance Dual pov Forbidden love Male yearning BAMF FMC

THE LOST BOYS x BELLADONNA

🪦RAREST PERISH🕊️

Dove Daley was meant to die the summer of 1989. The only problem was, Fate couldn’t seem to sink his claws into her.
Indignation turns to intrigue turns to infatuation. From there, things get pretty fuckin’ strange.
#YouDeservepIt #WIP #A #R

!!!!! yes PLEASE !!!!!

A non-believing sheltered preacher’s daughter’s impending arranged marriage to an emotionally abusive man is a hell she’s unwilling to endure. She finds comfort in the arms of a local biker, but her parents prove their God-stained control knows no bounds.

#Youdeservepit #Q #A

two people standing on some rocks with hammerhead sharks flying over them. there's a frame, and the title reads "saltwater in their veins."

THE RIVER HAS TEETH BUT IT'S CALIFORNIA IN 1988
Ash and Tawny met once upon a dream. The problem is that their shared dreams are a gift from a proto-whale-shaped ocean deity and prophesize a flood of apocalyptic proportions.
#YouDeservePit #WIP #A with crossover potential #H #R

A moodboard of nine photographs arranged three by three. The pictures convey the motifs, the tone, and dynamics of the story. Four photos are tinted a warm orange, and depict a moth on a girl's hand, a murder of crows, a rose bush, and a girl touching an old piano. Four photos are tinted a cold blue, and depict a young woman gazing to the side, a pair of women in long nightgowns holding hands, a girl being embraced and pulled towards the edge of the photograph, and sillhouettes of two women facing each other in the darkness in an outdoor setting. In the centre is a picture of a rose bloom, over which are superimposed the words 'What are you willing to give up for love?'

CARMILLA x THE CONJURING
A medium shouldn't fall in love with a spirit — especially one she is meant to banish
🗝️ Haunted houses
🌹 Slow-burn romance
🗝️ Gothic horror
🌹 Love triangles
🗝️ Toxic relationships
🗡️ Plain bad heroines
Emotional damages included in the price
#YouDeservepIt #Q #A #H #amquerying

dark garden moodboard floral aesthetic rotting flowers, quest narrative, dash of botanical horror.

#YouDeservepIt #Q #F #R

A many-eyed queen. A charming blue stranger. A disgraced heir hungry for revenge. A sentient land with no shores.

Daphne must face the hidden dangers of her kingdom to stop a mysterious rot from spreading.

👀editor interest👀

⛓️ 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙵𝙰𝙼𝙸𝙻𝚈 𝙱𝙾𝚁𝙽 𝙸𝙽 𝙱𝙻𝙾𝙾𝙳
REAPERVERSE: Book 2

CHAINSAW MAN x JUJUTSU KAISEN x DARK

Brightloch has fallen to chaos amid monsters and political unrest — while Griffin’s family is devoured from the inside out by ghosts made flesh.

Winter 2025
#YouDeservePit #WIP #A #F

The House of Hemlock A WORK IN PROGRESS ONE DARK WINDOW meets STARLING HOUSE in this gothic dual POV adult romantic fantasy steeped in grief-torn promises, fate-bound strangers, and simmering tensions— where a house watches, gods scheme, and rot runs deep.

The Opening There was truth in blood—meant to spill, drain life, stain the earth, and leave death grinning in its wake. The first gods knew it. They shaped the earth with rivers of it, winding red veins through stone and moss, tangling it into the roots of trees that cracked the sky open with their branches. Blood was the first language, the thread stitching life to decay, shadow to light. It was the beginning and the end, the thread through all things. It sang louder than prayers and bound tighter than oaths. It was promise and debt, offering and curse. The gods demanded it-again and again—until the earth grew slick, not with dew, but with what they were owed. But even gods forget. They never asked what would become of blood left too long untended. It rots. It rises. It remembers.

The Vibes •Cursed magic and creeping rot (One Dark Window) •Haunted by prophetic visions (A Study in Drowning) •Nature’s eerie obedience (For the Wolf) •Gothic atmosphere and simmering tension (Down Comes the Night) •Sentient manor hiding secrets (Starling House) •Healing that defies the natural order (The Thirteenth Child) •Connection to death (Belladonna)

A dark, spooky, nature-inspired gothic mood

A grief-torn healer, bent on vengeance against the god who claimed all she loved in death and decay, uses her craft to infiltrate the god’s court—entangling with a haunted heir, plagued by fated dreams of her arrival, who will stop at nothing to unearth her purpose.

#youdeservepit #wip #f #r #a

a moodboard detailing nine images related to my work in progress devilswip, in order from right to left they are: london notably the landmark big ben, a band performing on stage, a sheet of music, a record store, the silhouette of a rockstar, some musical instruments scattered on a bed, two men running, a pile of evidence and finally a hand holding a cigarette

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️

the songstress, the high-flyer, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. seven suspects. one the killer of renowned rockstar sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you

#YouDeservepIt #Q #A #LF #M

A Southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become.
#YouDeservePit #Q #YA #H #T

a nine image collage featuring (left to right, top to bottom) the rusty red hood of an old car surrounded by brown grass, a pair of black-clothed arms cradling an orange cat, a bleeding human bite mark on skin, a young woman's reflection distorted by a broken mirror, a graphic of a shovel with the text "i took care of that thing for you", two feminine individuals kissing tenderly in bed, a close up of a deeply scarred upper arm being gently touched, a pile of flung playing cards, and a burning house erupting in smoke.

IN THE END, YOU KILL US BOTH is a lesbian literary horror involving ...

🩸a traumatized arsonist
🥩 her cannibalistic butch lover
🍂 mountains of angst
🏜️ a revenge road trip across the American west

and you can find it right now where books are sold 🥀

#YouDeservepIt #SP #A

Got the donation info from the article. "Her Venmo handle is @major-griffingracy, and her Cash App is $MajorGriffinGracy."

keeping all of my american friends, colleagues, and family in my heart and mind. it's hard to find the right words, so i have a simple reminder.

THOUSANDS of years in existence has proven the resilience and strength of our people and communities. whatever you do today, do NOT forget that.

maybe some sort of... marketing??? by publishers????

One thing before tomorrow:

Use your local libraries.

Get your card.

Borrow books, manga, films, audios, ebooks.

Recommend titles for purchase (usually online).

Attend promoted activities.

Fill out those "How are we doing?" questionnaires.

Tell your kids that libraries are good.

They are.

📚

need to go back to my roots and reread exquisite corpse and drawing blood. god, there's just nothing like a little shot of brite to get the creative juices juicing🩸

utterly DIVINE, right? 🖤😭

an agent's guide to saltwater in their veins. the background is a lighthouse against a starry purple sky

the pitch: in 1977, ash st. jude drowned. he was dead for two minutes, until a whale-shaped ocean god saved his life. it's 1988 now, and for the past eleven years, he's heard its constant chanting in the back of his mind. its blessing allows him a glimpse into the future, where the ocean has flooded the world. only he and the girl with the golden eyes, who he's only ever met in his dreams, will survive.

for fans of: the raven cycle, donnie darko, my dearest darkest, the lighthouse, 80s glam metal, the river has teeth, california gothic, summer sons

themes & tropes: faith vs free will, coming of age and self-discovery, small town, big trouble, found family, mental health rep and queer rep, prophetic dreams

An #agentsguide to Saltwater in Their Veins
THE RIVER HAS TEETH BUT IT'S CALIFORNIA IN 1988
💙✨Urban romantasy with horror elements✨💙
#P2PPit #UW #W #A with #YA crossover potential

sometimes writing is chiseling away the block of marble to reveal the statue already within and sometimes it's throwing more and more clay on a pile until you figure out what the statue even is

DAVID LYNCH. entirely responsible for the first gentle pulse of my entire artistic career. what an incredible man.

five sacrilegious teenagers try to spruce up their dying DIY religion, and things go exactly as horribly as you'd expect 👀

as always, COMPLETELY obsessed 🩸🥹

A nine image collage featuring a screenshot from Yellowjackets of a horned, masked individual, a woman laying bankside in a white dress, a frozen cross, a close-up portion of a painting featuring four rope bound hooves, a crying individual with text reading "Am I walking towards something I should be running away from?", two young women tenderly kissing, a close shot of an alligator's teeth, a silver cross charm being consumed by a puddle of blood, and a car sinking into a deep body of water in the middle of the woods.

PREACHER'S DAUGHTER X BRUTES

re-introducing THE MAGNOLIA CLUB, a southern + gothic horror 🖤

🩸 teenage blood cults
⛪ deeply-religious southern setting
🦴 feral girls with bone collections
🐊 deified dead girls and local legends
🍂 sapphic longing w/ a violent end

#BluePit #H #A #LBGT

a moodboard collage of a dark city, angel wings silhouette, red trees, a man in a church, industrial buildings, a woman standing over a corpse, black claw hands, a lady in a tub full of a red liquid

a moodboard of chain links, pin head from hellraiser, hand painted on a. back, moons, stars, a ceramic heart, black gloves, fangs biting a neck

locked tomb x dante’s 🔥 x frankenstein x alien romulus

❤️‍🔥 morally grey queer disabled BIPOC cast of characters
⛓️ a world where sins are carried in morbid ways
🧠 memories cannot be trusted
💉 a competition where humanity is the ultimate reward
🥩 cannibalism is an act of "god"

#BluePit #A #H #SFF