Leanne Pankuch

Congrats to the amazing @allymalinenko.bsky.social on her Stoker Award nomination. So well deserved!
#brokendolls

Wow! Congrats!!!!

A bit late posting, but I'm super excited that my spooky, sciency middle grade novel, The Haunting of Sia Wix won the Book Pipeline 2025 Unpublished competition! @bookpipeline.bsky.social
#mglit

What Are You Reading? The Staggering TBR Pile

Everyone out there have a teetering #TBR pile like me? For writers, reading what today's readers are reading is essential. Check out this post from @janetsfox.bsky.social
janetfox.substack.com/p/what-are-y...?

#amwriting
#amreading

Stack of Gothic themed books. Dracula, haunting of hill house, carol Goodman, Bram stoker, Henry James, Shirley Jackson, will maclean, apparition, asylum, roux, the companion, Katie Alender, Jane Eyre, Bronte, Rebecca, du maurier, poe, dragonwyck, Anya Seton,

Returning to some Gothic faves as I draft my new #YA project!
#yalit
#gothiclit
#haunting

"All women are magic. Literally all of us. It's in our nature.” Kelly Barnhill - When Women Were Dragons

#booksky

Hello my spooky-writer lovelies -- submit your short death-centered fiction here!

This one always hits... ;)

#daylightsavingtime
#morecoffee

So cute!

Beyond excited to announce that my writing is now represented by Diego Harrison of SBR Media !
His enthusiasm for “The Haunting of Sia Wix” and his belief in my career as an author made me sure he was the one – looking forward to our shared success!
#kidlit #amwriting #mg #spooky #horror #amquerying

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

This sounds fantastic! Marking for pre-order! 👻

*screams*

Take care and feel better! I feel like everyone I know has been sick recently... 🤍

Love everything about this!

Me too!

Hey friends - remember don't pitch your project with the #mswl tag!

"Like, share, & RT agent and editor #MSWL’s to help boost visibility & help your friends
Do not post or pitch in the feed – agents & editors have been instructed to block writers who do."

www.manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...

For fun, a moodboard in my antagonist's POV!

Shapeshifter Liraz served under the God of Chaos' command up until his master's demise. After tricking the last surviving gods and stealing their powers, he went into hiding. Now centuries later, he's back and has set his sights on Keira
#Questpit #RF #F

Can't wait to read this!

HERE IT IS! BROKEN DOLLS COMING SEPTEMBER 2025
That quote had me in literal tears. Share and you're in the drawing for copies of all three books.

photo collage: haunted house in fog, rain boots splashing, spooky broken doll, graveyard at night, tornado cloud, ghost figure reaching, vintage baby blue Ford pickup - The Haunting of Sia Wix

GHOSTSxTWISTERxNANCYDREW
Anxious & sassy 12-year-old Sia begins hearing strange voices over her weather radio.
The voices of the dead.
Local ghosts are being hunted by a dark spirit. Can Sia’s courage & weather smarts help overcome her anxiety & save her dead friends?
#q #mg #h #m #Questpit

#MSWL Day 2025: Search Tips & Features This is "#MSWL Day 2025: Search Tips & Features" by The Manuscript Academy on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2025! 🎉

This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share!

Rather listen than read? Here’s a how-to! vimeo.com/1055984106

Here’s our Bluesky search guide: youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE?...

And lastly, we are very proud to share that @cynleitichsmith.bsky.social received the ALSC Children's Literature Lecture Award! Congrats!

mood board with a flying apple; cat; golden key; hourglass; full moon; a dancing girl; apple orchard; huge, gnarled tree; paintbrushes; a man's shadow; a ring of light; a couple holding hands; a dark, shadowy path in the woods; 2 hands reaching for each other; and a quote that says "the only way to have a life is to live your life..." ~The Orchard

Worried about the future, 2 BFFs discover a magical orchard that thrusts them into a time-bending, reality-questioning adventure where they must escape the dark Shadow, save the orchard & get back to their own timeline before fading out of existence. #P2Ppit #Q #YA #C #F #R

A snowy forest. A shadowy hand. A shadowy woman. A woman in a dress. Steampunk gears. A full moon.

BRIDGERTON X ATLA

A hero's side quest is a life-shattering experience for someone else. When a legendary hero crashes into a young lady's life, she finds herself questioning everything she ever knew as the two try to save her town from a mystical murderer.

#P2Ppit #Q #A #RF

🖤🕯️Gothic Horror🕯️🖤

Set in the Scottish Highlands, ONLY MONSTERS LIVE HERE blends legends, folklore, and personal experience. If Wuthering Heights and The Picture of Dorian Gray had a baby, this would be it.

#P2Ppit #W #A #H #HF

Love this mood board!

Broken Victorian doll, tornado cloud, graveyard, vintage blue pickup truck, ghost in the trees, foggy haunted house, rainboots in a puddle, creepy ghost girl

GHOSTSxTWISTERxNANCYDREW
When anxious Sia visits America's most haunted town, strange voices begin to talk over her weather radio.
Ghost voices.
The ghosts are being hunted by a dark spirit. Can Sia's courage and weather smarts save her friends—living & dead? #P2Ppit #MG #H #M #Q

The literary feel & longing angst of DON’T LET THE FOREST IN
X SHE IS A HAUNTING

17 yo Simone is Haunted & Hexed

But she’s desperate to hold on to the bi boy she’s cursed to be the death of & won’t let go of Cousin Nina’s increasingly malevolent spirit.

🖤THE TRUTH OF FEAR🖤
#YA #H #R #Q #P2Ppit

When a Halloween ghost hunt goes wrong -- awakening a haunting family legacy -- 12 y/o Casey must figure out who he is beyond his recent grief, who he refuses to be, and save his sister and their small town from the grisly ghosts of their past. #P2Ppit #MG #H #AW #onsub