Kirsten E Bell

The text on the picture says "And yet the human blood that kept my heart beating on this earth was like poison. The catalyst of heartbreak. A drug, misdosed. There's a girl with her eyes closed laying in a flower field.

Anthology of the Woods 🪕🔮🌔

A coven’s chance encounter w/ a rock band might not be as coincidental as once believed when Brigid, a witch trying to protect her farm, meets her match in the band's frontman. There will be a showdown of fame and magic so don't play the wrong chord...

#QuestPit #Q #S

Anthology of the Woods is written across what looks like an album cover. The artist is attributed to The West End. Three women's silhouettes are dancing in a field at night. There's an advisory label and a barcode as well.

The back of the album cover. There are 5 tracks in order titled: White Anemone, Burn Hole, Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, I Only Asked for Help, The Pearl. There are 3 pictures on the right, one of two people kissing, one of a woman with a sword and one of a hand reaching out for a ghost like figure. all are in black and white.

ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS

Witchy like The Once and Future Witches
Rock n Roll like Daisy Jones and the Six

⚠️Warning⚠️ Don't play the wrong string when it comes to battles of fame vs magic...

#QuestPit #Q #Speculative

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Good morning #writingcommunity! Woke up before the sun with a BIG idea. It's a cool 60 degrees and my cherry coffee is piping hot. Let's goooooo!

Reading a gothic thriller at the pool and the fence posts are GIVING.

So far so great: The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths

#booksky

About to start day 2 of the Writing Day New England workshop! Loving the online format. Would recommend!

Also - I have TWO pitches with agents today 😬 Good vibes, por favor!! Will update after!

I did it. I GUTTED my book for a 2nd time because I knew deep in my soul it just needed it.

✅ 3 rounds of personal eyeballing edits
✅ professional developmental edits
✅ from the heart because I knew I could do better edits

AotW is now a witch book worthy of a spot on a book shelf 💜

#AmQuerying

ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS

A witch tale with fangs, fitting nicely on a shelf next to "The Once and Future Witches" & "Garden Spells".

✔️Cottage Core
✔️Twist Ending
✔️Sisterhood
✔️Morally Gray FMC
✔️Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
✔️Atmospheric
✔️Feminism
✔️Dancing ghosts in a theater 👻

#BluePit📖 #Q #Spec #A

The vibes are vibing for me 🤘

I always end up pulling on a sweater when I work on this one 😂 Lots of ice!!

A Harmony o witches collage with flowers, magic and picnic

#BluePit #DIS #TR #LGBT #ND #YA #F
Three gay witches---a transfemme autist, a burnt out prodigy, and a runaway music witch---and a sentient plant must hide from the peering eyes of witch society for three months. Cue magical training montages, emotional exploration, and a helping of sapphic love.

Three-panel moodboard consisting of three pieces by Alphonse Mucha. Left: Emerald. A serpent snarls at the viewer from amidst green lilies. Center: The Moon. A woman wearing nothing but a navy blanket covered in stars stands against a backdrop consisting of the night sky and a crescent moon. She covers her smile with one hand. This image is noticeably lower in quality than its neighboring panels. Right: Salon des Cent. A woman conceals her mouth with a hand, her index finger curled down. She's glaring intensely at the viewer. A golden filigree lines the bottom and frames the sides, partially covering the left and right panels.

DRAGONFALL x FFXIV
When Mick agrees to be his mage bff(/crush) Eleanor's adventuring partner, all he wants is to keep her safe. But a twist of fate changes him into a divine dragon, and his priorities shift to: stop a war, protect Eleanor, and stay alive. In that order.
#BluePit #BluePit📖 #F #R #W

a moodboard detailing nine images related to my book: a neon rock n roll sign, london (notably big ben), a man playing the guitar, someone punching a mirror into shards, a man staring into the camera with his face concealed, someone walking down a hallway, stars falling from the sky, photos hanging from the ceiling and finally, an audience at a gig. all nine images have a red hue.

🎸 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

#BluePit #Q #A #LF #M #BluePit📖

A woman lying back in the water with a line from the book reading: "I rested my lips alongside his ear and whispered, "run".

ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS
#BluePit📖 #Q #A #SP

A coven’s chance encounter with a rock band might not be as coincidental as once believed. Brigid a witch trying to protect her family farm will meet her match in the band's frontman. Secrets, spells & rock&roll will ignite a showdown between fame & magic.

Woman holding lantern with text from the book: By the time the three were pulling themselves onto one of the lighted sailboats, the calls of Captain Nicholas and Mother Ginger were soft in the night wind. The lighthouse was free of its cursed shackles, now peacefully sinking to the bottom of the Aegean Sea.

CLARA
#BluePit📖 #Q #YA

🐁🔮A witchy reimagining of the Nutcracker for fans of the -ber months🌜❄️

The ballet never mentioned Clara was a witch. At this year’s Yule Ball, Clara and a rag-tag trio of misfits will be traveling a lot further than the Sugar Plum Forest to save their magical kingdom.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for hosting this event, #SmallPitch!!!

'Clara' will be headed off on submission now to an amazing Indie Press right where she's always wanted to be 🖤

In both cases, I was scrolling through the pitch event's # and they had both said something along the lines of: "I'm watching pitches today and looking for x..."

I also regularly search #MSWL for the same reason.

🎉 🎉🎉

ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS
#Speculative #A #Q

Coven of witches with secrets 🤝 Rock band with secrets

Brigid (the green witch) with a revenge plot 🤝 Frontman with a selfish goal

The Once and Future Witches 🤝 Garden Spells

The Craft 🤝 Taylor Swift's Folklore

#PlaylistPitch

Do some sleuthing! I received 2 agent ❤️s and full requests after seeing those agents post what they were looking for at that pitch event. I commented my pitch to their posts and ended up getting requests from those!

#BluePitHype

ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS has received feedback about its lovely lyrical prose and beautiful atmosphere but this is the character visual board that built the cast :)

#UnhingedPit #Q #Speculative

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CLARA: For fans of the -ber months.

#UnhingedPit #Q #YA

An album cover that depicts the silhouette of 3 women outside and the album cover is Anthology of the Woods by the West End.

The back of the album cover. It says Anthology of the woods then 5 song names and a description.

Love this album! It was written about a coven of witches the band met once along Pictured Rocks. Kinda spooky but I can tell Banks is obsessed with one of them. Maybe too obsessed?

#UnhingedPit #Q #Speculative

OMG I'm preparing for a writing conference and I've fallen so far down the pitching rabbit hole that I'm considering changing my title...... SOS.
................................. Or, like, should I?..........
#writingcommunity #authorsky

This is EXACTLY why I creep this hashtag on the regular 🤘🤘 Coming right up!!

ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS
🌜The Craft🌛 scored by 🕯️Folklore🕯️
#Q #SwiftiePitch

A cozy tale of folklore with fangs that would shelf nicely with "The Once and Future Witches" & "Garden Spells".

✔️Cottage Core
✔️Twist Ending
✔️Sisterhood
✔️Morally Dark Gray FMC
✔️Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
✔️Atmospheric
✔️Feminism

#swiftiepitch?!?! OMG hold please....

QUESTION! #writingcommunity #amquerying #onsub
Have you guys personally (not by agents or other professionals) collected market data for your book? I've found a few good sources but wondering if there's some nice public data from GoodReads or Amazon that would be dependable/accurate?

Currently floundering between projects 😆

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My life:
1. Hears song at coffee shop that makes me feel introspective.
2. Rushes home to write a ~1000 word zero draft inspired by said song.
3. Gets coffee the next day - restarts cycle.

Today it was "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone".

How many zero drafts do you have?
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Framing this. Crawling out of "maybe pile purgatory" inch by inch.

#writingcommunity #amquerying