Liz 👻🍂🪦

Moodboard consisting of nine images including: old books and bloodstained documents, stilt house on a beach, crumpled papers and a magnifying glass, a woman sitting in the shadows in front of a conspiracy board, a chalk outline of a body, a man's silhouette, a coastal town, a colorful Victorian house, and a crowded concert.

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING x GHOSTS

When an inquisitive 25yo secretary inherits an abandoned detective agency, she partners with the private investigator’s ghost to find her neighbor’s killer in a case that mirrors the PI’s own unsolved murder 60 years earlier.

#GhostPit #A #Q #PN #MM #M

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A flower-seller inherits a countryside manor — overrun by 73 dogs, countless dangerous ghosts, and one irritating disgraced celebrity necromancer.

To keep her new home, she’ll need to fix up the house and get rid of the ghosts… before she becomes a haunting, too.

#GhostPit #A #G #F #Q

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ahaha I’d be honored to have someone that interested in my little book!

Dating swamp mood boards

FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL X BRIDGET JONES’ DIARY

In this spicy upmarket novel, Madi promises herself she'll move to London if she doesn't find love this summer. Her friends' wedding events bring her two gentlemen callers. Who will Madi choose: Felix, Jonah, London or herself?

#ghostpit #w #wf #a

Images: girl holding pumpkin, profile of teen girl, magical books, girl on surfboard with witch's hat, teen witch mid-ritual; text: Early Magic, ya contemporary fantasy

🧹 EARLY MAGIC 🧹 👻 🎃

Clueless x Practical Magic

Two witches. A missing portal. And a crafty daemon. Also a hot vet and some surfing.
Oh, and a perfect pair of Prada boots.

#ghostpit #Q #F #YA #Q
#WriteSky

The Witches of Buckhead Soft science fiction / urban fantasy with romance Cornelia is a freshman struggling to make friends at Briarcliff College. With her mom's skincare business sales down after witch potions are now widely available, she might not even be able to afford tuition anymore. Then she meets Killian, a non-practicing witch and a talented writer in her fiction workshop. Cornelia develops a crush on him and asks his older sister to make her a love potion. The sister, who wants her brother to marry a witch, realizes the love potion is for Killian, so she changes the contents of the potion. When Cornelia learns the potion was botched, she confesses to Killian what she did and he reverses the spell, but he's no longer interested in Cornelia, due to her dishonesty. With Cornelia's mom's business in danger of going bankrupt, she joins her brother in anti-witch activism, only to find Killian is there to protest the unethical use of potions as a cure for diseases, which his parents are heavily involved in at the Institute for Disease Mitigation. Can Cornelia win back Killian's friendship, put an end to witchcraft threatening small businesses and end the dangerous use of potions in healthcare? Or will she have to drop out of Briarcliff, lose her friend and crush and watch the world succumb to witchcraft replacing science?

In a world of potions threatening small businesses like her mom’s, and being dangerously used to cure diseases, a uni student’s use of a love potion backfires and to win back her friendship with her crush— an anti-potion witch— she must protest the govt’s legalization of potions. #ghostpit #w

Thousands of phantom stingers pierce my skin, leaving no evidence but for the shaking of my hands. I flip the wooden sign on the front door to “Closed,” sighing as the cold winter daylight streams in through the glass panes. It reflects little white squares on the knobby wooden floor. Funny. Kinda makes me want to play hopscotch. As if I could. I heave a deep sigh, glancing around my apothecary. Dust motes swirl in circular ballets, bouncing off each other in fireworks of throat-scratching particles. How poetic. Limping, I hobble over to my counter, where piles of the most common herbs lay, untouched. I’m fucked.

THE HONEY WITCH X LATE BLOOMER

THE WITCH AND THE GROCER
- femme x butch
- witch x werewolf
- slow burn
- small town apothecary
- ghosts
- haunted fruit
- #OV #DIS rep

#ghostpit #FR #Q #A

First lines ⬇️

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𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘦 | characters

𖤓 the apostle 𖤓

a man without a name still finds joy and positivity in the world around him

#ghostpit #Q #A #G #H #West

Moodboard featuring nine images, including: top left an image of a London Underground train in motion, top middle is an artitst's interpretation of fairy taxidermy, pinned similarly to an insect within a shadow box, top right is a man sat in a wheelchair, middle left is a blonde woman who's face is in shadow, middle image is the shadow of a monstrous hand grabbing a person's head, middlie right is a group of five people standing in the shadows of an old archway, bottom left is a pale hand coming out of a dark wooden wardrobe, bottom middle is is foggy Big Ben on Westminster Bridge, bottom right is two blurry people running down a marble staircase

NINTH HOUSE x FLEABAG

Haunted by a magical parasite whispering in her head, a dropout returns to the university where her best friend died, while the remnants of fairy-tales rot in jars and the failing barrier between worlds demands the truth she’s buried.

#GhostPit #Q #A #F #H

a 9 image moodboard of western themes with red, yellow and orange imagery (right to left, top to bottom): a horse, a hand with flames, a creepy cowboy, a church, artwork of a western casket, doves, a body and a crow, hands with a cross made of light, and a cowgirl on her horse)

𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘦 | novella

a religious apostle & western outlaw work together to stop an eldritch horror spreading across the desert 𓆈Ψ𐚁

#ghostpit #A #Q #H #G #West

The quote: “Aris waited until the groundskeeper turned around the bend of the carriage way to break the window.” Above a series of images: a forest canopy, a student by the river in a historical city, a shelf of oddities including animal skulls, someone in a dress shirt and vest, a forest, a large animal skull, people holding cups and cigarettes around a table, and a notebooks with sketches of a skeleton.

NAUSICAA x WILL OF THE MANY

After conjuring the ghost of bone magic's inventor, university student Aris attracts the attention of an undead professor who would kill to keep the secret of magic's origins buried.

👻 #GhostPit #A #F #LGBT

A collage of Viking and medieval themed images including a goblet, warriors, and nuns, French lavender, a castle and Nunnery a random chicken and a very cold you woman wrapped in a grey blanket.

Vikings x Derry Girls = Viking, Nun, Murder, Chicken.

A chance encounter between a Viking and a fake nun leads to murder, mystery, and romance. And chickens. The chickens are key to the plot.
#GhostPit #Q #A #His #HR #MM

Door in the Fernwood: In this magical Irish bloodline, poison runs deep.

When sixteen-year-old Quinn puts on an ancient ancestral ring, it shatters the protective binding spell her family cast at birth—awakening clairvoyant powers she should have inherited from her Irish magical bloodline. But the ring also makes her visible to Neris, a Victorian sorceress who hunts Quinn to steal the ring. Hidden away in an Oregon enchanted forest with extended family, Quinn must master her powers before Neris destroys not only her, but their entire family tree.

Portal to another realm, plant magic, elixirs and poisons, romance subplot, magical artifacts, time travel, magical baking

Quinn gripped her camera and leaned forward, her shins pressing against the greenhouse ladder. Face to face with her majestic corpse flower, she held her breath as its infamous, putrid odor spilled from the curling burgundy folds. After years of careful cultivation, she couldn’t afford to miss a single stage of its first bloom. The camera’s shutter clicked one final time as she aimed into its central chamber. Satisfied with her shots, she climbed down and switched on the exhaust fan. Through the greenhouse glass, she watched her elderly neighbors on their back deck, gossiping as usual, completely unaware of the olfactory surprise heading their way. Right on cue, Vera’s voice rang out. “Woo-ee! Who died?” she screeched, sniffing the air. “Nobody croaked,” her husband Artie grumbled as he sipped coffee from his John Deere mug. “It’s that young girl next door. You remember she invited us over to look at some big, stinky flower tonight?” “Well, I’m not goin’. Bet you I’d pass out if I got any closer,” Vera said. “You know her mother keeps her locked up in that backyard doing the strangest things. It’s just not normal for a girl her age.” Although the comment stung, small-town judgments like this only fueled Quinn’s retreat into her own backyard utopia, where she propagated plants from all over the globe—the carnivorous, poisonous, endangered, the beautiful, the ugly, and the common. She sketched the rare or interesting ones—charcoal drawings lined the interior walls of her garden shed wherever she found a blank space. She collected their seeds, dried their leaves, made teas, salves, and medicinal remedies.

A teen outcast from a secret line of Irish plant magicians must harness newfound powers to protect herself from a poison-wielding ancestor who hunts her family across time.
🍄 Plant magic
🌿 Poisons + elixirs
💌 Romance subplot
🎂 Magical baking
🚪 Portal to another realm
#amquerying #GhostPit #ya

fruitwip poster by tyler stasi

fruitwip pitch and moodboard

fruitwip themes and comps

#GhostPit #W #Spec

Severance x PIRANESI x THE GARDEN

How far would you go to hide the person you used to be?

⚜️botanical/psychological horror
⚜️epistolary
⚜️moral decay
⚜️unidentified FMC
⚜️literary-leaning

art: giuseppe arcimboldo

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Mood board/Agent's guide for my novel CARGO - a queer SF/heist/romance - 110,000 words "Did you hear? There's a human on board." A graphic of the wall of a spaceship with sticky notes and polaroid photos taped up. There are twinkle lights hanging from the ceiling. alien ship's cook (fussy, anxious) + terrifying monster (ordinary human)

PITCH: Tai’s terrified of humans. Everyone is. Violent pack hunters, humans are notorious for their strength, sharp teeth, and carnivorous appetites. But the ship’s cook is safe among the multispecies crew of the cargo hauler Coreward Baker: everyone knows the warrior species rarely leave their own space. Then Captain Raz hires Clarke, a human horticulturist. Even after Tai overcomes their fear, they can’t stand Clarke. She’s bossy. Annoying. Useless in the galley, bad in a space suit. She might as well be cargo. Worse, she’s intent on befriending Tai—and why can’t they stop thinking about her, anyway? That’s when things go wrong. As Tai starts to realize their feelings for Clarke, they’re horrified to learn that nobody on their crew of dropouts and runaways is quite who they seem, least of all Clarke. And it’s no coincidence. Raz reveals they’ve each been handpicked for a heist he’s spent years planning—and no one’s allowed to say no. PRIORITIES: make dinner remain cozy haul cargo go for drinks pull off one last score try not to fall in love

FIRST PAGE: “Did you hear? There’s a Human on board.” I choked on my noodles and turned to stare at the diners at the next table. Like most of the restaurant’s patrons, the pair had hidden their profiles, a halfhearted attempt at anonymity. “Gross,” the speaker’s crewmate said, oblivious to my alarm. “I hope it leaves soon.” “Don’t let it hear you say that,” the first worker laughed. She made a show of looking for Humans, her eyes darting from table to table. It. I frowned. I knew the workers’ language distinguished between people and things, and ‘it’ was an unkind choice of words at best. The second worker shuddered. “I don’t know why we let them come here.” The first laughed. “Are you going to stop them?”

COMPS: Murderbot by Martha Wells Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wisewell The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers TROPES: Non-binary narrator masking anxiety with sarcasm lying to themselves non-human perspective (afraid of humans) neurodivergent main characters metaphorically disabled protagonist slow-burn friends-to-lovers and enemies to lovers in the same relationship disabilitynorm and queernorm setting found family loveable pet/terrifying monster

F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

Everything fell apart when the human came aboard. Instead of nice meals and quiet cargo runs, Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #GhostPit #A #Q #R #LGBT

Image: Wednesday-like girl holding a small pumpkin; text: Early Magic, ya contemporary fantasy

🧹 EARLY MAGIC 🧹

Clueless x Practical Magic

When a cocksure witch loses her magic to a cunning daemon, she hatches a ruthless plan to steal it back—though it means betraying a grieving classmate who’s only just discovered the world of magic.
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🧙‍♀️
❤️
🏄‍♀️
🌲
🎃

#ghostpit #YA #F #Q
#WriteSky

Made from non-AI free stock images. This image is a book cover design for a novel titled "Happy Death Inc." by B. Van Bodegom. The cover is divided into three distinct horizontal sections: 1. Top Section: Features a cartoonish blue sky with white clouds and a bright sun. At the top, a tagline reads: "How much would you pay to die with a smile?" The word "HAPPY" appears in large, playful, hand-drawn-style font, partially overlapping the sky background. 2. Middle Section: A photograph of a deceased man in a suit, lying in a casket. He has an exaggerated smile on his face, almost unnaturally wide and clean, suggesting artificial enhancement or post-mortem alteration. Overlaid on this image is the word "DEATH" in the same large font as the previous word. 3. Bottom Section: A cartoon city skyline in pastel tones, similar in style to the top sky background. The word "INC." is overlaid prominently in the same large font. At the very bottom, in smaller capital letters, it says: "A Novel by B VAN BODEGOM"

BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE

Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag.

#GhostPit #A #DS #SF #W

#GhostPit #Q #A #RF 👻
Nefarious Enterprises
Hope rests on thin ice when a desperate unemployed witch juggles a double life by teaming up with a clumsy debut Overlord to save her town from the Snow Queen’s harsh economic freeze❄️
🎃Halloween Core
💎Heist
🤏🏻Pinch of spice

The witch and the grocer 78k sapphic cozy fantasy romance

The romance Witch x werewolf Butch x femme Ownvokces heds rep First time Open door spice Alarra Thorne Robin Hart

The pitch Alarra thorne is a broke, disabled, single witch getting evicted from her failing apothecary. On a commiseratory night out with her half-satyr bff Trixie, Alarra meets Robin Hart, a half werewolf butch grocer wanting a second job thanks to the spreading friit blight. After seeing alarra collapse at work, Rlbin ahrees to work with her despite the low pay.

Comps The homey witch Late bloomer The very secret society of irregular witches Legends and lattes

THE HONEY WITCH X LATE BLOOMER

A disabled witch hires a butch werewolf grocer to work in her failing apothecary. But when she and the grocer fall in love, a ghost torments the shop! The witch must solve the haunting to save the town and her new hot gf.

#ghostpit #A #FR

Summer moodboard

Heartbroken summer camp staff Sage and Nico start a casual relationship to get over their recent heartbreaks. Nico realizes he wants this to be more than a summer thing, but Sage has some unfinished business back at school that she won't let go of so easily.

#ghostpit #q #na #r

21 Years Around the Sun: New Year, New Me Not like that? 4 images: top left disco balls, right is a woman holding a birthday cake, bottom left is a woman in an orange jumpsuit behind bars, right are bloody zombies

DON’T NAME THE DEAD

If three queer 20-somethings manage to not get eaten by the pandemic zombies, they’ll still have to dodge a preacher bent on building his post-apocalyptic flock.

🧟🏳️‍🌈SISTER MAIDEN MONSTER x THE LAST OF US

#H #na #a #ghostpit #lgbt

When cursed trans Prince Casper Sweetwater is caught and forced to live as his deadname, he thinks all hope is lost. He’s to be married off to a stranger, and to make sure he doesn’t run away, he’s been assigned a constant elven guard named Darrow Broadside. Desperate to return to the rebellion planning to kill the king, Casper realizes that his only chance of survival, to live as his true self will be if he breaks his curse. He enlists the assistance of a palace mage to help. She discovers that the cure to the curse is in Darrow’s homeland, which means that Casper cannot be cured unless he leaves. Casper must figure out how to escape the palace while dodging his suitor and his shadow. The only problem is, Darrow is very handsome and shockingly kind, and Casper is very gay. He must fight off distraction (or invite it in) to have any hope of freedom.

SWORDCROSSED X FAEBOUND

Under the Royal Guard’s Gaze

- forced proximity
- prince x guard
- arranged marriage
- tyrant king
- secret rebellion
- elemental magic
- persuasion magic
- trans MC
- open door spice
- elf LI
- baths and royal logistics

#ghostpit #NA #FR

Bittersweet in the Hollow X Your Blood, My Bones

When Reverie braves a party to talk to her crush, the last thing she expects is to be kidnapped into a secret society deep beneath the Earth’s crust, where soul crushing secrets breed and life-sucking monsters prowl.

#PitDark

Picture of a shadow person. Text: "I am nothing more than a husk, waiting to be filled by something greater than myself. A great change is upon me. A great change is moving through the world. It is already in motion. It cannot be stopped." Coming to beta winter 26. Querying Spooky Season 26

"HatWIP"

The Babadook X The Exorcist

He has been tormented by Shadow people since almost dying at age six.
They are increasing in frequency.
The Red Eyed God in the woods speaks of a great change.
Now, a man in a hat, who speaks the language of hate, wants him too.

#GhostPit #W #Horror #A

The quote: “Aris waited until the groundskeeper turned around the bend of the carriage way to break the window.” Above a series of images: a forest canopy, a student by the river in a historical city, a shelf of oddities including animal skulls, someone in a dress shirt and vest, a forest, a large animal skull, people holding cups and cigarettes around a table, and a notebooks with sketches of a skeleton.

NAUSICAA x WILL OF THE MANY

After conjuring the ghost of bone magic's inventor, university student Aris attracts the attention of an undead professor who would kill to keep the secret of magic's origins buried.

👻 #GhostPit #A #F #LGBT

Congrats Jade!!!

Thrilled to share I’m officially repped by emilykaitlin.bsky.social @ bookendsliterary.bsky.social! I’m so grateful to her & laylafallah.bsky.social for their support and guidance as I begin this next ch. Excited to celebrate with the #writingcommunity in this 🧵!

Thrilled to share I’m officially repped by @emilykaitlin.bsky.social @ @bookendsliterary.bsky.social! I’m so grateful to her & @laylafallah.bsky.social for their support and guidance as I begin this next ch. Excited to celebrate with the #writingcommunity in this 🧵! #writesky #agented

This was my #revpit #10queries feedback from @mariatureaud.bsky.social What a confidence boost! I have faith in my QP and opening pages - it only needs a few #litagents to respond this positively so I'll be re-entering the trenches with renewed vigour. There's an agent out there for me somewhere...