Bree Buonomo

#CurrentlyWriting Massacre Mansion
The Handyman Method x The Compound x Fear Factor

☎️ 2004
📺 Realty TV Show
🕹️ Games go awry
🏠 Can’t get out
🙅🏼‍♀️ Don’t split up
🤫 MC with a secret
💰 Eat the Rich
👹 Cosmic entity or mass murderer? 👀

#Horror #writingcommunity

A MEMORY OF MOONKISSED MALICE Fantasy Dark Academia Feminine Rage Vampires Corrupted Moon Magic Villain Era Protag Queendoms Enemies to Lovers Found Family

THE PITCH 18-year-old Alyss Veylas wishes to attend Nocturne Collegiate for one reason—revenge. Five long years after her sister was murdered by the school's guardian, she finally gets that chance. Armed with a Moon Fragment granting memory magic and the aid of her ex and his new girlfriend, Alyss must confront the woman who took away the person she loved most. YA Gothic Fantasy 93,000 Words

CHAPTER ONE The rain made it easier to rob his grave. My shovel carved through the sodden earth, the water contorting into murky veins around its edge. Desperation drove each labored thrust, the burning ache in my muscles but an afterthought to the prize that lied in wait. Even the Valera Forest held its breath; the fog thick enough to smother the night's whispers. All was silent save for the spilling of soil under the deluge that drenched us. Us. As I lifted my gaze to the boy standing across from me, I found that word had lost all semblance of warmth.

FOR FANS OF... The lush, gothic prose of... A fantasy academia setting similar to... A supernatural mystery like...

ONE DARK WINDOW X KATABASIS

Nocturne Collegiate is celebrated as a sanctuary from warring Queendoms and brutal vampires, but Alyss knows better—its guardian murdered her sister, and now she's come for revenge.🌙🦇⚔️

#QuestPit #OS #AG #YA #F

An Agent Guide to GUMIHO 86,000 word adult folklore fantasy blended with horror and romance By Jennifer Luce

The pitch: Cursed with a vengeful gumiho, Mina has spent centuries feeding it souls to become a god—and now she needs just one more, but when she falls for her final target, she must choose: face her demons and sever the curse before the gumiho consumes her from the inside out, or achieve godhood and lose herself to become something truly monstrous.

For fans of... SUCH SHARP TEETH by Rachel Harrison - physical transformation & emotional vulnerability THE FOX WIFE by Yangsze Choo - East Asian Folklore MY DEMON - Redemption through connection THE GLORY - Morally gray anti-hero

First Lines Bright droplets of red bloomed against the crisp, white snow. A trail, unbeknownst to my victim, that would lead to his demise.

Hi #Questpit! Nearly done w/ SmoochPit revisions, here's GUMIHO, my Korean folklore-inspired adult fantasy blended w/ horror & romance!

✨️ Selected for the 2025 Smoochpit Mentorship Program
✨️ Big 5 Editor Interest
✨️ Won 3rd in the horror category of the 2025 PNWA Writing Contest

#A #F #H #R

Gothic text treatment with a red skeletal graphic overlay with a spooky, dark forest photograph background. Text reads "An Agent's Guide to the Banshee of Clan Murtagh, a gothic love story, 82,000 words, adult horror, by Anna Hirsch."

Tropes & comps: Irish folklore, she's the monster, generational trauma, only one grave. The yearning in the time of plague found in Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, Catholicism vs the Supernatural in The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas, the medieval horror of Between Two fires by Christopher Buehlman, the death-crossed lovers of Nosferatu directed by Robert Eggers.

The pitch: When Ciarán Murtagh hears the cry of his family’s banshee for the first time in a decade, he knows one of his own is fated to die. Yet, his family doesn’t believe his warnings, and why would they? The last time Ciarán heard the banshee, he didn’t tell a soul until after his younger cousin tragically died under his watch. He’s been the family pariah ever since. Desperate for redemption, Ciarán hunts down the banshee in search of answers. She’s equal parts frightening and alluring, and in his struggle to confront her, he inadvertently triggers the banshee’s memories. Memories of when she was a servant of his household, decades ago—a woman named Deirdre. In hopes of learning whose death she foretold, Ciarán tenuously agrees to help Deirdre remember who she was. They begin meeting by moonlight, and with every clandestine encounter, his macabre desire for Deirdre grows. When the devastating bubonic plague befalls the Murtagh household, and Deirdre’s memories reveal a dark scandal in the family’s history, Ciarán must decide whether to stay by his family’s side in their final hours or embrace the seduction of the death-bringer. But fate demands more than death, and Deirdre is no longer the only ghost cursed to haunt Clan Murtagh forever.

The first line: I was a boy of ten when I first saw death, but I'd heard her for years.

HAMNET x NOSFERATU

🖤 The black sheep of a powerful 14th-century Irish family falls in love with the banshee who’s haunted his household for generations—but as the bubonic plague closes in, he must choose between the living and the dead.

💌 SmoochPit 2025 Mentee

#QuestPit #Q #A #H #HFic

A Bird eating a caterpillar off a thorn: Title: The Shrike's Stone Heart, 92K YA Fantasy. Pictures: Holding hands, wrapped in thread. Woman with black eyes and blood on her face, person getting a tattoo on their arm

92K - Dual POV - YA FANTASY

🏰 HERS - FANTASY
🛝 Childhood Friends
👭 Sister Bonds
👩‍🍼 Inherited Magic
🏃‍♀️‍➡️ Leap, Then Look
💋 Kiss, Marry, or Kill?

🧌 HIS - HORROR
💑 Childhood Sweethearts
💕 Self-Sacrificing Loyalty
💀 Soul Selling
🤔 Anxious, Overthinker
🫀 Cannibal Witch

#questpit #YA #F #H #WIP

Over a background with a pink octopus and curling tentacles in dark blue water. The four backgrounds of each picture come together to show one image. In white text: Guide to Sculptor of the Winds by Ivy T. Woods Book 1 in the Sea of Sorrows Duology Romantic Pirate Fantasy

Over a background with a pink octopus and curling tentacles in dark blue water. The four backgrounds of each picture come together to show one image. To the left in white text: Pitch When Minna is offered a place weaving the winds—and protecting the ship from monsters—on one of the largest ships in the Fleet, it comes with a catch: her betrothal to the Deckmistress’ son. Bullied by her mother, Minna takes the deal, surprised to find that her betrothed and her new Deckmistress are actually quite tolerable. But when they capture one of the monsters terrorizing the Sea of Sorrows, Minna is forced into the role of jailer while they interrogate the monster, trying to force her to give up the location of the monsters’ lair. But as Minna’s monstrous prisoner proves herself to be surprisingly human, Minna becomes intent on saving her from her inevitable execution, going against her Deckmistress, her betrothed, and the entire crew. But the other monsters are drawn to their own. And they are coming. To the right is a picture of a tall ship with two sails up on the main mast against an orange horizon, with rocks in the foreground on the right

Over a background with a pink octopus and curling tentacles in dark blue water. The four backgrounds of each picture come together to show one image. In white text: Comps & Tropes Seafaring adventure Arranged marriage Monster love interest Yearning Bisexual main character Images of the covers for The Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl Bury our bones in the midnight soil by V. E. Schwab

Over a background with a pink octopus and curling tentacles in dark blue water. The four backgrounds of each picture come together to show one image. In white text: First Lines The first body they found was bloated, thick veins of black running beneath the dark skin, branching out and away from the missing chunk of flesh in the dead man’s shoulder. The corpse’s sun-bleached trousers were caught on a rocky protrusion, leaving the body to rise and settle with each rush of water up the golden sand. “Fucking seas,” Minna muttered. “Is he washing in or out, do you figure?” Her father grunted, squatting down beside the body, plucking the torn and bloody pants away from the rock that kept the body anchored to the shoreline. The next wave rushed in to claim its prize, sucking the body back down the beach as it withdrew. “I suppose we’ll see soon.” Her father shielded his eyes with one hand, silver hairs shining in the sun as he squinted inland. “Body can’t have been too old.”

A guide to my #WIP 🌊 SCULPTOR OF THE WINDS 🌊
Book 1 in a planned duology, it has:
⚓️ Seafaring adventures
🌋Roots in animistic religion
⚡️A physics based magic system
🐙 Sea monsters large and small
🏠 Complex family dynamics
🌎 Accessible worldbuilding

#questpit #A #F #RF #FR #W #LGBT #OV #AG

92K - Dual POV - YA FANTASY

🏰 HERS - FANTASY
🛝 Childhood Friends
👭 Sister Bonds
👩‍🍼 Inherited Magic
🏃‍♀️‍➡️ Leap, Then Look
💋 Kiss, Marry, or Kill?

🧌 HIS - HORROR
💑 Childhood Sweethearts
💕 Self-Sacrificing Loyalty
💀 Soul Selling
🤔 Anxious, Overthinker
🫀 Cannibal Witch

#Bluepit #bluepit📖#YA #Fantasy

On a background of a foggy coniferous forest. The background of the four images fit together to show a stream with rocks working its way between two hills in the forest, both covered with trees. In white text: An Editor’s Guide To The Land of Undying Summer by Ivy T. Woods Adult Romantic Fantasy 108,000 words

On a background of a foggy coniferous forest. The background of the four images fit together to show a stream with rocks working its way between two hills in the forest, both covered with trees. On the left side of the picture is an ink drawn map of a continent. In white text: Pitch When a half-dead priestess is forced to work with a wandering mage to figure out why mages are dwindling among her people, they develop a reluctant camaraderie. But when he kills a guard, her people’s distrust escalates into a full-scale uprising, leaving the two loners to save the living, the dead, and each other. Though not necessarily in that order.

On a background of a foggy coniferous forest. The background of the four images fit together to show a stream with rocks working its way between two hills in the forest, both covered with trees. In white text: Comps The atmosphere and vibes of: - The Gilded Crown by Marianne Gordon - Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang The Humour Of: - Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

On a background of a foggy coniferous forest. The background of the four images fit together to show a stream with rocks working its way between two hills in the forest, both covered with trees. In white text Chapter One - The End of Darkness No Guide could resist the Call of Return forever. But this time, when Tilaani’s trembling hands closed on the spiked rocks of the Wolf’s Fangs, the agonizing need for the missing part of herself had dulled to an aching throb. The Call would take her eventually. But not today. Today, she was already running late. “Shit!” Tilaani snatched her cloak from the icy stalagmite she had been using as a hanger and staggered to a slim crack in the cliff face. It had been a century since the passage had opened in one of El’Drek’s rages but the frozen stone was still jagged, tugging at her shirt as she sidled through, thin cloak clutched in one hand. Wind whistled through the crevice, peppering her exposed skin with hard snow. It melted, steaming as it touched her. Time within the cavern had always been malleable, misaligned with the world outside. Shinac had always claimed the shifts were random but Tilaani had her doubts. It always seemed to stretch whenever she was in a hurry. She wouldn’t put it past any of the dead—either Blessed or Barred—to extend time merely to inconvenience her. And now, backing up this theory, the sun was high overhead and the few hours she had spent being lectured by the Ancients had become nearly an entire night and day in the land of the living. Allak would be insufferable if she was late.

An #editorsguide to 🌲THE LAND OF UNDYING SUMMER🌲
This romantic fantasy has:
🐻‍❄️ Canadian subarctic inspired setting
🌋Roots in animistic religion
⚡️A physics based magic system
👵🏽 Crotchety immortals
🏠 Complex family dynamics
🌎 Accessible worldbuilding

#bluepit📖 #A #F #R #FR #OS soon 👀

Gothic mood board for a fiction novel featuring a skull, medieval Irish imagery, catholic symbolism, and gothic horror romance vibes. Text in the center reads "The Banshee of Clan Murtagh, 80,000 word gothic horror, SmoochPit 2025"

The Pitch: When Ciarán Murtagh hears the cry of his family’s eternally young banshee, he hunts her down to learn who in his family is fated to die. In the struggle, his touch triggers memories of the banshee’s previous life as a servant of his household—and she demands to know more. They meet by moonlight searching for answers in the banshee’s memories, and Ciarán’s growing attraction sets him on a path of macabre desire. But as the devastating bubonic plague closes in, Ciarán must decide whether to stay by his dying family or succumb to the seduction of the death-bringer.

HAMNET x NOSFERATU

The black sheep of a powerful 14th-century Irish family pursues a forbidden romance with the eternally young banshee who’s haunted his estate for generations, but as the bubonic plague closes in he must choose between the living and the dead.

#BluePit 📖 #A #Q #H #HS #D #Gothic

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A DOWRY OF BLOOD x THE BACHELOR

Holland only agrees to date Dracula on TV to boost her influencer career. When producer manipulation goes too far, she tries to leave, but finds the eliminated girls haven’t been sent home—they’ve been fed on.

#BluePit 📖 #A #H #W #HU

I might not be super active on here, but I do a LOT of scrolling, and it's time for a break. I'll be around when I need to be 💛
Happy New Year all!

All the congrats!! 😍

A dark reimagining of the korean folktale Heungbu and Nolbu, haunted houses & sentient gardens, biracial representation, buried family secrets THE SEEDS OF OUR SINS Adult Gothic Fantasy Horror MEXICAN GOTHIC X CRIMSON PEAK When Seo-Yun returns to her estranged grandmother'sisland estate to investigateher family's history of disappearances, she finds a house steeped in rot and the once prized garden now withered and dying. As the decay in the house mysteriously begins to heal, while creeping vines from the garden hungrily spread throughout the halls, whispering warnings of a faceless ghost that draws closer each passing night, Seo-Yun must unearth generations of her family's secrets—and the truth buried in her grandmother’s garden—before she becomes the next woman claimed by its dark history.

A moodboard with a picture of a woman under a curtain, a foggy forest, a woman staring into the forest, wilted flowers, a foggy ocean, wilted vines, a woman standing in fog, korean architecture, a woman at a window

MEXICAN GOTHIC X CRIMSON PEAK

🇰🇷A dark reimagining of the Korean folktale Heungbu and Nolbu
👻Haunted Houses
🥀Sentient Gardens
🖤Buried Family Secrets
✨️Biracial Representation

#WIPPit #A #G #H #F

On a background of dark blue water and a pinky purple octopus tentacle Sculptor of the Waves Ivy T. Woods Queer Romantic Fantasy WIP

On a background of dark blue water and a pinky purple octopus tentacles Pitch When Minna is offered a place weaving the winds and waves on one of the largest ships in the Fleet, it comes with a catch—her betrothal to the Deckmistress’ son. Willing to do anything to achieve greatness, she takes the deal, surprised to find that her betrothed is actually quite tolerable. But when they capture a monstrous pirate, Minna is forced into the role of jailer and becomes entranced, putting Minna at odds with her Deckmistress, her betrothed, and the entire crew as she fights to save the monster from both execution and the shackles of the god that enslaves her. But the god is coming to reclaim Its slave and will destroy everything in Its path to get her. On the right is a tall ship illuminated by a sunset in a white circle

On a background of dark blue water and a pinky purple octopus tentacles Comps & Tropes The poster for pirates of the Caribbean, curse of the black pearl and the cover for bury our bones in the midnight soil Bisexual love triangle Actually has to choose Arranged marriage / forced proximity Enemies to lovers Yearning She’s a monster and I don’t care

On a background of dark blue water and a pinky purple octopus tentacles First lines Minna clutched the handrail as the ship smacked into the water, riding a violent dip between waves. Her bare foot slipped on the step and she fell, barking her shin against the steep steps of the ladder. She made a mental note to smack Kadir later—he needed a gentler touch. The seas were to be guided, not forced. She hauled herself off the wooden planks and touched a finger to the sun-darkened skin of her leg. No blood at least. She strode down the aisle between the oars to her father’s cabin at the stern and pushed the door open, not bothering to knock. If the Deckmaster needed her so urgently, he could deal with her barging in.

Pirates of the Caribbean but if Elizabeth was a bisexual mage, Will and Jack were combined into a lesbian monster/pirate, and James Norrington was an age-appropriate hottie that didn’t suck. Then add more angst and a cult
#WIPPIT #A #F #R #FR #Agented

Mood board depicting dark, campy vampire aesthetic with a silhouette of Dracula. Headline reads "Who Wants to Be Dracula's Bride" with tagline "This season's to die for".

A DOWRY OF BLOOD x THE BACHELOR

Holland only agrees to date Dracula on TV to boost her influencer career. When producer manipulation goes too far, she tries to leave, but finds the eliminated girls haven’t been sent home—they’ve been fed on.

#WIPPit #A #H

HatWIP Adult Horror 53k and counting. Beta coming winter 26. Lead yourself into temptation. Deliver yourself into evil. "I could not shake the thought, what if I had been dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight? Would I even care?"

Chris Hessian has been plagued by Shadows since almost dying at six years old.
Now, they are increasing in frequency.
The Red Eyed God calls him to witness a great change.
The old world is dying. A new one is struggling to be born.
Now is the time of monsters.....
#WIPPIT #Horror #WIP #A

Jeni’s class is SO worth it. Up to date info, community support, and valuable exercises to take your query package to the next level!!
The best beta testing experience I’ve had!

I love everything about this and I can’t wait to cheer you on with everything that follows!! 😍💛 so happy for you!

We need more books with

🩸 a cult of cannibalistic widows
🩸 sweet tea and ground bone cakes
🩸 toxic reunion of childhood best friends
🩸 diseases that rot livestock from the inside out
🩸 barn dances and human sacrifices

#amwriting #folkhorror

Congratulations!! 🎉🍾🤩

Thank you Katrin!!

Looool please 🤣 I still have your love is my drug stuck in my head

Charming can be deceiving 👀🩸

HOUSE OF HUNGER x SO THIRSTY Casey barely survives the everyday horrors of a druggie mom + bank account in the red, but when a drug deal goes wrong, she's bitten. Rescued by a vampire, charming & aloof, Casey realizes she might be trading one trauma for another.
#DVPit #A #H #lgbt #own

Scary fun indeed 😈

Casey takes care of her drug-addicted mother and suffers her own vices. When a vampire whisks Casey away from a drug deal gone bad, she eagerly goes with him. But when Casey realizes she's traded one vice for another, she must determine how far she will go to cut them all out for good
#DVPit #A #H