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Mum, writer, navigator of ADHD & OCD and unapologetic addict of cheese 🧀 In the query trenches while I work on the next book!
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🔪 Ada - a medium & fraud, turns to murder, determined to create the perfect ghost 🪦 Harriet - terrified of spirits, cursed with the ability to hear them ☠️ When her best friend is murdered, Harriet must face her fear & seek out the dead to find the killer ✨Dual POV #YouDeservepIt #a #hf #q soon

LEGENDBORN X AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER When fighters start disappearing from an underground elemental tournament, a sixteen-year-old participant with wind powers must uncover the tournament’s secrets before she loses a match and shares their fate. #2025Pit #YA #F #Jewish

TENDER IS THE FLESH + THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS As a wild human, Rachel’s flesh is considered a delicacy. Captured & sold at market, her fate now rests on her ability to convince her not quite human buyer that she is worth more alive than on his dinner plate #2025Pit #Q #A #SF #H #SpecFic

Jane Eyre retelling Luna Elliot, once Baby Jane Doe, finds refuge as Thornfield Hotel's concierge, and falls for the pensive hotelier E. Rochester. But as love blooms, secrets, vanishing staff, and a fatal plunge ignite suspicion threatening her happiness. #2025PIT #A #LF #R #H #T #DR

#2025pit #a #f #h KJC + EVEN THOUGH I KNEW THE END Scotland, 1925: a thief, a sorceress, and a demon hunter travel to England to steal a demonic grimoire. The thief and the sorceress enjoy a steamy affair, but he pines for the hunter. As feelings clash, betrayals threaten to become apocalyptic.

Elin thought she was elected to reform the nation, protect workers, humble the nobility and break the power of the slaving charterlords. Instead she's alone at the top, politically dead and dodging assassins sent by the prophetic WHETHER MEN as they launch a coup they know will win. #2025Pit #A #F

Hellbound Bastards is a completed, 32k-word weird western novella that combines the stark violence of Blood Meridian with the nightmarish cosmic terror of The Dunwich Horror. It's also got: 🔫Gunfights 📕An Occult Tome 💰A Bank Robbery 🕯️Black Magic 🩸And blood... lots of it #2025pit #A #H

The Gathering is mandatory by Jasper Carrion’s decree. Villagers compete to partake in the Feast, a four-hour eating orgy, for those lucky enough to snag RING balls matching two sets of numbers selected at random, desire can be enjoyed in excess. A HUNGER ARTIST X THE RUNNING MAN #A #F #H #pit2025

As a child, Emma found her grandmother in the woods, crying over something awful yet unseen. The memory has been lost for years but Emma’s return to her grandmother’s house brings the horror back, drawing her into a world of witchcraft and the occult. #A #H #Novella #2025Pit

THE HONEY WITCH x LATE BLOOMER A disabled witch hires a butch grocer to help her failing apothecary, but in falling for the grocer, the witch angers the ghost haunting her shop, and, oddly, her half-satyr best friend. The Witch and The Grocer 🍇🐝 #RM #A #YA #DIS #ownvoices #2025Pit

🐝 Alarra, single witch with chronic pain, needs a helper. 🧑🏻‍🌾 Robin, butch grocer, needs a second job. 💁🏻‍♀️ Trixie, half-satyr bff, doesn’t like this. For Alarra, working with Robin is a dream that turns into a nightmare when a ghost starts tormenting her apothecary. #2025Pit #RM #LGBT #DIS #A #Q

While visiting her father, Edie Grayson falls in love with his touristy seaside town. Unfortunately, there's a dark undercurrent here. Edie has to find out: what is wrong in Bludeye Beach? DRESDEN FILES X GRAVITY FALLS 👧Character driven 💕Slow burn romance 👻Monster menagerie #2025pit #A #Q #H #F

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Stalked by Mothman and plagued by visions of his dead sister, inept cowhand Thomas turns to witchcraft. But magic comes at a terrible price. Outriding accusations of serial murder is easy… Resurrection, on the other hand, may cost Thomas his soul. RED RABBIT x WIZARD AND GLASS #2025Pit #H #W #YA 🏳️‍🌈

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#2025Pit #F #Q OUABH x ODW x TOG In a land on the brink of magical renewal, a young woman braves the hidden dangers of her kingdom to stop a mysterious rot from spreading. 💐sentient land w/no shores 👑insect queen 🌱disgraced heir hungry for revenge 🫐charming blue stranger

COME CLOSER x MAUVE FLY x DIONYSUS When talentless lead actress Bea learns the director wants to replace her with an understudy, she holds a Dionysian ritual in the woods. Something answers. Bea transforms. And the show must go on. #H #A #2025pit

Crimson Peak X Lisa Jewell As the new concierge, Luna's dark past & future collide in a romance with the enigmatic hotelier, but dark secrets, vanishing staff, & a fatal plunge from the penthouse balcony scorch her romance & threaten to unravel her fragile sense of self. #2025PIT #A #LF #R #H #T

CHAMBER THE ROUND A supernatural noir. Monty and Liza are enforcers trying to catch a man who killed one of their own. Only the fugitive has help: gods aiming to sow chaos. Can they survive long enough to reverse the events set in motion? CITY ON FIRE mixed with Celtic myth. #2025pit #A #H #T

A forbidden friendship between a desperate Star creature seeking acceptance and an apathetic Stone creature yearning for oblivion sparks a dangerous game of survival, where they must choose between saving themselves or each other. The Queen of Blood x The Book of Azreal #2025Pit #A #F #RM

50 years ago, a man in a hand-painted skull mask killed 10 people in Saddleton, TX, then vanished into the night. Now, three desperate teens are going to find out what really happened to the Saddleton Skull, and come face to face with a killer in...NIGHT OF THE SKULL. #2025pit #H #YA

MIDNIGHT LIBRARY X DOCTOR WHO When a book bearing his name crashes through David’s window, he’s thrust into a battle between cosmic authors shaping reality and the leaders of Fate, who want to replace them with AI. Soon he has to ask himself: Is he human—or an ultimate weapon? #2025pit #A #SF #F

When a Y2K doomsday cult kidnaps an old friend, 13yo Jackson must team up with his ex-80s rocker uncle and his punky best pal to solve the mystery before the clock strikes midnight on NYE. From PDX to the Cali redwoods to the AZ desert. An original riff on J. Bellairs' tropes. #2025Pit #MG #M #H #S

ALL YOUR TWISTED SECRETS X ALL OF US ARE DEAD When six divisive high schoolers get stuck together in a zombie outbreak, they must set aside their differences and travel cross-country through hordes of rabid cannibals, before they're infected by the disease they've sworn to destroy. #2025Pit #YA #H

The Gathering is mandatory by Jasper Carrion’s decree. Villagers compete to partake in the Feast, a four-hour eating orgy, for those lucky enough to snag RING balls matching two sets of numbers selected at random, desire can be enjoyed in excess. A HUNGER ARTIST X THE RUNNING MAN #A #H #pit2025

MINISTRY OF 🕰️/TOMORROW(x3) x WESTWORLD Nia trades her freedom to save her twin. Now she’s 🔒 in a violent virtual city that resets daily. But only she remembers. If she can’t break the cycle before the program goes live, all inside will ☠️, & the tech will be released to the 🌎 #2025Pit #A #T #SPF

SUCCESSION X THE BELL JAR Following the suicide of her sales agent Rebecca Solomon, New York CEO Cassandra Feuerbach becomes entangled in the hypocrisies of the New York elite as she uncovers a controversial social experiment that took Rebecca's life. #A #LF #2025Pit

Haves and have-nots. Syphilis and silicosis. A small town in the wake of a serial killer and his angry God. For his town, his love interest, and most of all his soul, Lt. Noble must face his own demons to stop a Luciferian evil. ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK X THE HUNTER #A #T #2025pit #upmarket

📌 Brainy Gabrielle dreams of college—until the town golden boy murders her sister. She trades hero for villain to avenge girls as a bloodthirsty vigilante, but must outsmart the law and survive her own plan to succeed. 🕵️‍♀️ ROBIN HOOD meets DEATH NOTE & IRON WIDOW w/ editor interest ❗ #2025Pit #YA #T

🖤 Labyrinth x Aladdin 🖤 Imprisoned in a fae dungeon, a girl is offered salvation by the cruel enemy king who has every reason to want her dead after her father cursed him. She has to decide if she should trust the evil fae she's falling for, or betray him and win a crown of her own #2025Pit #YA #RF

Jane Harper X ALL THE SINNERS BLEED Local police are stretched thin and have to call in a collaboration with the FBI. If Lt. Noble and Special Agent Janes are to save the last shreds of innocence left in small-town America they must play a twisted game with a serial killer. #A #T #2025pit #upmarket

THE STRINGS OF WILLIS MANOR Thistle Willis is sick. She's confined to her manor and under the thumb of Mama. She slowly unravels horrifying mysteries around her while narrowly avoiding inhumane treatment from The Healer. Family secrets, dark magic and female rage. #2025Pit #A #S #SPF #LGTBQ

Vikings x Derry Girls = Viking, Nun, Murder, Chicken. A chance encounter between a Viking and a fake nun leads to murder, mystery, and romance. #2025Pit #A #HF #R #T

In the aftermath of nuclear war, Ana Su leads a double life: head of a refugee camp for Slavic war survivors, and member of a terrorist group attacking war profiteers. Under threat of discovery and death, she must choose the refugees’ safety or her dedication to justice. #2025pit #A #D #T

#2025Pit When Marz DeMaria leaves campus seeking an adrenaline sleep aid, the Indian-expat’s motorcycle hits a pothole, goes airborne & opens an immersive Déjà Vu-doors to alternate pasts, presents & futures lead to untold possibilities & unknowable perils. StrangerThings+DARK MATTER #A #SPF #T #DIS

MURDER, SHE KINKED: Ava is a writer working at being a dominatrix as research for her next novel. When her best friend and mentor is brutally murdered, she continues in the business to search for the killer. Will she be the next victim? #2025Pit #T #A

Taylor Swift’s RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME x WHAT LIES BENEATH When Sophie is brutally dumped, a voice in her head prods her to seek revenge. Is she possessed—or just pissed? 🌊unreliable narrator 🌊a haunting secret 🌊second chance love 🌊a twist that will 👀 #2025pit #na #t

Twenty years after escaping a serial killer, Marissa is horrified when he begins haunting her. Paranoid and desperate for help, she must destroy the ghost before he finishes what he started twenty years ago. MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT x THE GIRL FROM WIDOW HILLS #2025PIT #A #M #S #T #BIPOC #LGBT #ND

A Gen-X suburban mom's sick neurotic mental state is put on full display when a home intruder stumbles into her home. AMERICAN PSYCHO + HEATHERS #A #S #T #2025Pit

THIS GIRL’S A KILLER x MEXICAN GOTHIC A student’s quest to prove that she didn’t kill her classmate leads her into UC Irvine’s sinister underbelly & forces her to question her role in her classmate’s disappearance — and what she is willing to do to hide it. #A #T #M #SPF #2025Pit #queer #POC

A closed room country house murder you say? May I introduce you to FUCK THIS MURDER 🐊🐊🐊 - a humorous, foul mouthed mystery, complete w/ sabotaged pre-wedding jaunts (bad food, poison oak, BEES), rekindled romance, a murder forest, & much more! #2025Pit #A #M #autism #Disabilty #LGBTQIA+ #OWN

In order to reclaim her dream, an unsociable dancer must concoct an elaborate plan to redeem her hallucinating stalker and rid herself of her abrasive boyfriend, an extortionist drug dealer, & a lifetime of guilt and remorse stemming from a 13-yr-old murder. BROTHER x BLACK SWAN #2025Pit #A #S #T

A group of strangers win invites to a hotel on a remote island paradise, unaware they’re the entertainment at a serial killer reality show live-streamed on the dark web. Battle Royale x And Then There Were None x Glass Onion #2025pit #A #T

The sun is dying and there was a living being inside the mysterious artifact from Mercury. The first android CEO of the Sol System has to save his citizens, but his enemies and love life make it nearly impossible. Novel working title: ANCESTORS OF EARTH #2025pit

Ben lives free & easy to spite his dad & his company, but now there's a new 24/7 bodyguard getting in Ben's way. He'd be more annoyed if not for the fact that someone wants him dead, and he needs help stopping whoever that is. disco elysium + a marvellous light + the locked tomb #2025Pit #A #SPF #T