Anna Hirsch

Yesss, that very much ties into the theme! thank you :)

I appreciate you!!

Mission accomplished!! Thanks ❤️

Thanks Clover!! She’s my favorite 🖤

Thank you!!!

A teacher trades post-divorce shame for a trip to Ireland. Cue family reconnection, trad music sessions & a fling w a barman. When tragedy calls her back to Philly, she can maintain blood ties or break free from lifelong expectations. THE VIEW FROM LAKE COMO x THE WEDDING PEOPLE #BluePit 📖 #Q #A#WF

Ireland AND Philly? my heart!!

Due to a prenup that forbids songs about her cheating ex, a singer-songwriter plans to fake a romance and subsequent split with a washed-up actor as cover for her heartbreak songs—but falling for the man she must leave threatens both her carefully guarded heart and her solo debut.
#bluepit #A #R #W

Thank you so much!

Photo of a creepy gothic forest with the outline of red skeletal hands reaching in. Text reads "An Agent's Guide to The Banshee of Clan Murtagh: a gothic love story. 80,000 words, adult horror, by Anna Hirsch."

Torn paper with a graphic of praying hands holding a rosary. Text reads: The pitch: Ireland, 1348: 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.

For fans of: the yearning in the time of plague in Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, the Catholic horror in The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas, and the death-crossed lovers in Nosferatu directed by Robert Eggers.

A spooky forest with a red outline of a skeletal deer overlayed on it. Large text reads: 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 pursues a forbidden romance with the banshee who's haunted his household for generations.

🖤 2025 SmoochPit Mentee
🖤 Bubonic plague
🖤 Catholic horror
🖤 Only one grave

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #A #Q #H #HS #D #Gothic

I can't wait for this book to be out in the world! It's so good!!

BRIDGERTON X PARKS AND REC
...but make it Canadian during Confederation

A MOST POLITICAL PROPOSAL
A Liberal politician fakes an engagement with his Conservative rival's daughter to expand voting rights but to convince her to make it real might cost him his political career.
#bluepit📖 #R #HS #A #Q

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

Girl with cracked mirror, wall of photos with red string, bff necklace, gothic woods, shadow of hand holding knife, two teens climbing a fence, headlights, and a girl whispering, also a cs Lewis quote saying you can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending

16-year-old Jess, who sees people’s future corpses in their reflections, must race to change fate when her visions reveal that her only friend is about to be murdered.
#bluepit📖 #bluepit #YA #M #SP #W

thanks lucy!

These comps 😍

Selected for 2025 SmoochPit Mentorship

THE HUNGER GAMES meets DAUGHTER OF THE MOON GODDESS where a heart-devouring fox demon bard seeking to become human joins the deadly race up a wish-granting mountain—but falling for a demon hunter may cost her everything.

#BluePit📖 #A #F #Q #amquerying

thank you so much!!

thanks so much!!

Same

I can't wait to be able to finish this draft!

me too ❤️

I need this on my shelf asap!!

With one month to save her job on the newsletter at a soulmate testing company, an editor joins a writing group run by the local English professor. But when their chemistry develops into much more than words on paper, it's not only her job on the line—her heart is too.

#BluePit📖 #A #R #SP #Q

An updated agent’s guide for SOUL-MAYBE, a 78k word speculative romance I #amquerying!

💘 soulmates in modern dating
📝 writing group chaos
📚 he reads her favorite book
❤️‍🩹 estranged family&mental health rep

I can’t wait for this!!! The horror is so delicious

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

Anna Hirsch (@annahirsch.bsky.social) I’m thrilled to finally share the updated guide to my gothic horror novel, THE BANSHEE OF CLAN MURTAGH. Now revised through the 2025 SmoochPit Mentorship program! 🖤 Medieval Ireland 🖤 She's the…

Ciarán doesn’t want to be followed by death. He certainly doesn’t expect to fall in love with her. Pursuing a doomed romance with his family’s banshee in the face of plague, he must choose the pain of living or the seduction of death.

#BluePit 📖 #A #Q #H #HS #D #Gothic

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.

#BluePit 📖 #A #H #W #HU

Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: LIGHTS, CAMBOT, BLOODBATH LAST CHANCE MATCH ARE YOU READY TO FIND THE ONE WHO'S TO DIE FOR? NOW REVISING WITH WRITEHIVE

Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: The Pitch Welcome to the inaugural season of Last Chance Match, a government-funded dating show for the soulmateless to find their other half. Set in a tropical location, eighteen hopeful singles will compete for the chance to have a soulmate and all the benefits that come with it such as: free healthcare and education, better job opportunities and exemption from soulmateless extermination at thirty. Due to limited resources and population control, only three couples can win. Are you ready to find the one who’s to die for? 28-year-old soulmateless Cera thinks the opportunity could represent a second chance until the show takes a dark turn and a fellow contestant is killed by the robot host. The infuriatingly attractive but mysterious Ryde swears he’ll get Cera home safely so long as they remain coupled to protect one another from elimination. But the fatal games they play for the nation’s entertainment pick the contestants off one by one, leaving Cera and Ryde to fight for their happily ever after—and to make it out alive.

Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: The Comps: Media: SQUID GAME, BLACK MIRROR, LOVE ISLAND: The deadly gameplay of SQUID GAME and the futuristic horror of BLACK MIRROR meets the summer romance of LOVE ISLAND Books: Hide - Kiersten White, The Compound - Aisling Rawle, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells The eerie prose and romance arcs of Kiersten White, the dystopian dating show of THE COMPOUND and the frightening use of bots in THE MURDERBOT DIARIES

Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: Themes & Tropes - Touch her and die MMC - Soulhates to Soulmates - What if divorce was eliminated and the government told you who your soulmate was? - head rolling twists - forced proximity - found family (then break it apart) - slow burn romance - genre blend sci fi dystopian horromance - survival of the fittest government mentality

A reality dating show gives Cera hope to escape soulmateless extermination in 2 yrs until another contestant is killed by the robot host, forcing her to work alongside the irritatingly attractive Ryde for her happily ever after—and to make it out alive.

#bluepit #A #SF #R #H #W #Revising #WriteHive