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dahliacrawford.bsky.social
23 | Colorado | she/her Historical fiction, horror, & fantasy. Find me in The Afterpast Review, The Ancient Post, Suburban Witchcraft, & Nightshade Lit. FKA Danica Whelan. https://dahliacrawford.carrd.co/
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microtropes in my debut novel, THE WAY WE USED TO BE, the story of a plus-sized fashion designer opening a new boutique and her ex childhood best friend (and first love) who helps her renovate it!✨😌 #WritingCommunity

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

THE POPPY WAR X SHADOW OF THE GODS🌋🧿 On a chain of Greek-inspired islands, Iro Zikos is spared by dying gods and granted the gold touch becoming a coveted weapon—just as the king of the largest isle dies, leaving a power vacuum and five ambitious families to fill it. #YouDeservepIt #F #A #Agented

submitted 30 days ago • 7 comments

Glamorous Notions x The Heiress 💍 1950s NY High Society 💀Murdered Husband 👗Couture Gowns 🫦Noir Romance 🍸Sexy Bartender 💰Handsome Rich Widower 📖Family Secrets 🔫Mob Boss w/a Promise #bluepit #A #S #T #Hs #Q

submitted 42 days ago • 8 comments

FOR LOVERS OF ALWAYS BE MY MAYBE x TALIA HIBBERT x DANIELLE ALLEN When Amara struggles to find a contractor to renovate her plus-size boutique, she enlists the help of her ex-childhood best friend (& first love), Theo, who she hasn’t spoken to in 8 years #BluePit #R #Agented

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

When nature witch, Isadora, struggles to keep her grandma’s apothecary shop open, she’s giving the opportunity to marry grumpy demon, Xavier, for 1 year in order to secure his inheritance and he’ll give her the funds needed to get her shop out of debt. #BluePit #W #P #R

submitted 41 days ago • 7 comments

FOR LOVERS OF CATHERINE COWLES, ELSIE SILVER & PAISLEY HOPE🌸 When Ivy has to navigate her new life after leaving a long term toxic relationship, she ends up falling for the last person she should, her older brother’s grumpy best friend, Alec, who’s battling his own demons. #BluePit #W #R #Agented

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

MORTAL INSTR x WITCHER 🌃 Near-future NYC 🛡️ A bio-enhanced modern knight 🩸 shares his blood to ⛑️ save a poisoned woman 📖 breaking magic law with 💀 a death sentence that 🗡️ he’s sworn to enforce 🩶 giving his morally grey cousin a way to dishonor him ❤️‍🔥 while falling in love. #bluepit #A #UF #DF #Q

submitted 41 days ago • 5 comments

liking positive reviews of your own book is toxic af

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

good afternoon #GoodreadsYearinBooks

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

After striking a bargain with a sea goddess to save her father, Nyelle must now abide by the conditions of her deal: provide the heart of ruthless pirate Kaden Lowan on a silver platter, or be dissolved into seafoam. 🌊 #HoliPit #amquerying #F #R

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

👗+💍>🔫=💀+🍸+💸 Palm Royale x Double Indemity 1950s model now wealthy socialite arranges to kill her abusive husband to avoid divorce. But when she uncovers his mob dealings she must act before someone she loves falls victim of the real killer—who is not the one she hired. #Holipit #A #Hi #T #S #Q

submitted 70 days ago • 3 comments

In this CARMILLA retelling, Marsha Braun—a necromantic witch—must sell her family estate to free their trapped souls and escape a vicious immortality-seeking cult. There, she falls for the night gardener—with deadly family secrets intertwined with her own. #A #F #WIPPIT #Agented

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

When an otherworldly species threatens to take over their kingdoms, soon-to-be Queen, Isadora, has no choice but to marry her enemy and ruler of the vampire empire, Xavier, to form an alliance between their people and preserve their homes from violence and ruin #WIPPIT #RF #A

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

💫 #MeetMyMCs is BACK, friends! please load up your posts for 𝟭𝟮 𝗝𝗔𝗡𝗨𝗔𝗥𝗬 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, when we'll be discussing and celebrating all things main characters. tl;dr: open to all writers and WIPs of any stage. this is meant to be a *supportive* joyful event, not a professional/pitching one, with a focus on MCs.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

In a near future NYC, when a modern knight and his morally grey cousin save a woman from a near-fatal poisoning, their act of valor shatters a sacred law drawing the wrath of a magic council with the power to enforce a death penalty. But someone will drink Champagne.🍾#Cheerpit #A #F #Q

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

1950s model now wealthy socialite arranges to kill her abusive husband to avoid divorce. But when she uncovers his mob dealings she must act before someone she loves falls victim of the real killer—who is not the one she hired. #CheerPit #A #H #S #Q 👗+💍>🔫=💀+🍸+💸 🤍White Christmas 🎶=1954

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

it's a bit crazy to call your own story/book politically relevant or relevant to the times etc.... it just makes it sound like you wrote it only for that reason and to get more reads because of These Unprecedented Times

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment