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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀
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author of adult gothic horror | she/her | AMM alum | CCA literary grant recipient | no AI
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Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · Mar 17
ASID X PSYCHO

🕯️ a haunted manor
👻 ouija sessions & séances
💋 entangled romances
🩰 ballet, 🎹 piano, & 🎻 violin lessons
🛌 night terrors
✨ longing & yearning
🥀 gothic atmosphere
🪚 terrifying visions
💀 a host with a disturbing hobby

#H #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit
A 3x3 grid in sepia tones featuring: a girl lying on the ground, dead leaves scattered around her, a faceless person playing violin, a lush green yard viewed from a windowpane, three hands on a ouija board planchette, a blonde girl posing on a piano seat, a lit candelabra beside a vintage book, a stone bust of a woman placed before a bookshelf, a ballet dancer in a pink dress, and a boy in a camel pea coat and brown sweater
brookeabellamy.bsky.social
I only have 10k words left to revise in my book 👁️👄👁️ and then, following a final read-through, I am DONE!
October 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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✨🕯️💻 Manifesting an incredible April for all of us querying & on sub 💻🕯️✨
Sabrina carpenter on stage in a silver two piece, doing a yoga pose with candle and sparkle emojis placed in a circle around her
April 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Reading wrapup for 2025 Q1! I read 10 books (and am about to finish 2 more) 🥰
My reading wrapup for 2025’s first quarter: I who have never known men, jawbone, none of this is true, Emily Wilde’s map of the other lands, Tidepool, Queen of nothing, this summer will be different, meet me at the lake, the reformatory, horror movie, and I’m about to finish monstrilio and Brideshead revisited
March 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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8 agent likes for this one over on the 🐦 app 🥹 this has been such a successful day!!
brookeabellamy.bsky.social Brooke A. Bellamy 🕯️🥀 @brookeabellamy.bsky.social · Mar 17
ASID X PSYCHO

🕯️ a haunted manor
👻 ouija sessions & séances
💋 entangled romances
🩰 ballet, 🎹 piano, & 🎻 violin lessons
🛌 night terrors
✨ longing & yearning
🥀 gothic atmosphere
🪚 terrifying visions
💀 a host with a disturbing hobby

#H #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit
A 3x3 grid in sepia tones featuring: a girl lying on the ground, dead leaves scattered around her, a faceless person playing violin, a lush green yard viewed from a windowpane, three hands on a ouija board planchette, a blonde girl posing on a piano seat, a lit candelabra beside a vintage book, a stone bust of a woman placed before a bookshelf, a ballet dancer in a pink dress, and a boy in a camel pea coat and brown sweater
March 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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A pitch card for my adult horrormance about desire, societal expectations, and regret. 🫀🕯️
#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #H
GALEHOUSE An adult gothic horrormance with fantasy elements When a lonely woman with touch-based magic collapses at her wedding, her fiancé takes her to his labyrinthian estate to recover. There, she learns that her fiancé is cursed to become a monster each night. And when bodies begin to drop around the manor and she falls for his doctor brother, she is torn between her desire and doing the right thing. But there's only one way this ends: in blood. JUNIPER & THORN by Ava Reid ONE DARK WINDOW by Rachel gillig MK HARDY’s THE NEEDFIRE HOUSE OF SHADOWS by Darcy Coates 83k words - Big 5 editor interest
March 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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A pitch card for my adult/YA crossover horror about ghosts, grief, and art. 🍂🕯️
#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #H
The Misfortune of Cole Manor A gothic horror When a girl is invited to live in a haunted manor, she discovers that there are bones in its walls-and that her host wants her to become a part of his collection. Comps: CRIMSON PEAK THE SECRET HISTORY by DONNA TARTT A STUDY IN DROWNING by Ava Reid The Death of Jane Lawrence by CAITLIN STARLING 100k words - Big 5 editor interest
March 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
brookeabellamy.bsky.social
ASID X PSYCHO

🕯️ a haunted manor
👻 ouija sessions & séances
💋 entangled romances
🩰 ballet, 🎹 piano, & 🎻 violin lessons
🛌 night terrors
✨ longing & yearning
🥀 gothic atmosphere
🪚 terrifying visions
💀 a host with a disturbing hobby

#H #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit
A 3x3 grid in sepia tones featuring: a girl lying on the ground, dead leaves scattered around her, a faceless person playing violin, a lush green yard viewed from a windowpane, three hands on a ouija board planchette, a blonde girl posing on a piano seat, a lit candelabra beside a vintage book, a stone bust of a woman placed before a bookshelf, a ballet dancer in a pink dress, and a boy in a camel pea coat and brown sweater
March 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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JUNIPER & THORN X ONE DARK WINDOW

🪞 a violent curse
🕯️ a dark isolated manor
🫳🏻 touch-based magic
🫀 heart-eating monsters
🥀 gothic atmosphere
✨ longing & yearning
💋 secret romance
🪦 a dark history
🩸 monstrous body horror

#H #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit
A 3x3 grid in blue-toned black & white featuring: a gloomy mausoleum in the forest, a crying woman lying over an ill man, a pale woman with dark curls showing off her collarbone beneath a white nightgown, a ghostly image of a woman, her head thrown back, a grand high wall of picture frames, ghostly hands reaching out to each other, a man’s hand reaching out to undo the ties of a woman’s nightgown, a man and woman in shadow, kissing behind a curtain, and a dark, four-poster wooden bed
March 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Horror, which is definitely not surprising! 🥰🖤 #booksky
My Storygraph genre stats, which show I’ve read 4 horror, 3 romance, 3 fantasy, 2 historical, 2 contemporary, 1 dystopian, 1 LGBTQIA+, 1 YA, 1 thriller, 1 mystery, and 1 literary
March 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Late night writing session aka reading my favorite moments in Galehouse 🖤✨
For the first time, Oliver's eyes darkened with contempt. The sight frightened her. "Nothing will fix our family save killing every last one of us." She studied the change in him. "You can't really think that." He was quiet a moment, and then he leaned in closer, conspiratorial. His eyes glittered in the dim glow. "I hope he's good to you." Again that sparking flutter in her chest. She strangled it, swallowed it, until she could convince herself it was only the lingering anxiety of the last twenty-four hours. "I hope he is too."
March 16, 2025 at 2:29 AM
brookeabellamy.bsky.social
AHHHHHHHH SO PROUD!!!! 🥹🥹✨✨ she’s gonna be a real book! That we can all hold! 😭🖤
melodyrobinette.bsky.social Melody Robinette @melodyrobinette.bsky.social · Feb 27
Yall 🥺 My debut novel, THESE VILE HEARTS, (and sequel!) is going to be published by Putnam of PRH and I am 🤯 about this.

Definitely made a deal with a dryad to land my brilliant editor, Daphne Durham, and rockstar agents @stutitelidevara.bsky.social and @petejknapp.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Intro to the WIP I’m revising 🥰

DARCY COATES X JUNIPER & THORN
When a woman with touch-based magic discovers her fiancé’s monstrous curse, she worries he might be behind the sudden murders around their manor.

And after she falls mysteriously ill, she realizes she’ll be the next body to fall.
A group of warm and moody photos: a girl in a fancy nightgown brushing her wavy hair at a vanity, a couple brushing knuckles together, a man kissing or biting a woman’s neck, a black victorian dress, a couple lying on a wooden floor together, a snowy rooftop, and hands reaching through fog toward each other
November 8, 2024 at 11:55 AM
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✨ An agent’s guide to GALEHOUSE, my next adult project to enter the trenches! 🖤

🕯️ Featuring Big 5 editor interest, it’s currently in its final round of revisions, so agents, please do let me know if you’d like to see it in your inbox soon! 🫀
#amquerying #writingcommunity
Pale blue text over a black & white photo of a manor at the edge of the ocean. The text reads: an agent’s guide to Galehouse. Adult gothic horror-romance - 83k words 6 book covers pasted over a black and white photo of gilded picture frames hanging on a wall. The book covers are: juniper & thorn by Ava Reid, one dark window by Rachel Gillig, the death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin starling, the needfire by MK hardy, the Essex serpent by Sarah Perry, and house of shadows by Darcy Coates Pale blue text with a gothic aesthetic grid over a gray background. The text reads: Vibes: Gothic setting Murder mystery Hurt/comfort Steam Poisoned cups Cursed brothers Body horror Secret romance Monstrous transformations Yearning Ghosts (?) Wandering corridors w/ a candlestick Pale blue text over a black and white photo of a spooky graveyard. The text reads: PITCH: When a lonely woman with touch-based magic collapses at ber wedding, her fiancé takes ber to his labyrinthian estate to recover. There, she learns that her fiancé is cursed to become a monster each night. And when bodies start to drop around the manor and she falls for bis doctor brother, she is torn between ber desire and doing the right thing. But there’s only one way this ends: in blood.
January 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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helionauts.bsky.social
TOMORROW!!!!! 👀👏
helionauts.bsky.social j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · Dec 10
💫 #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.
January 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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literaryfey.bsky.social
hello friends! my colleague, the brilliant Lorna Hemingway, is on the hunt for new projects! she represents everything in the children's space from board books to YA and is specifically looking for:

- contemporary romance
- coming of age (especially BIPOC)
- gorgeous, punchy graphic novels

#mswl
January 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
brookeabellamy.bsky.social
IM SO OBSESSED WITH THIS BOOK AND ITS COVER AND ITS AUTHOR!
steelhester.bsky.social hester steel @steelhester.bsky.social · Dec 4
welcome to the Farmstead.
it's been waiting for you ❤️
image of a woman's face, looking both aggressive and curious, dissolving into a swirl of butterflies. at her throat, waves crash around a sea cave. Title: "The Faceless Thing We Adore". Note below: "coming August 2025. Just trust."
December 4, 2024 at 3:22 PM
brookeabellamy.bsky.social
“So you’re saying some unwell individual broke into the Gale estate without Ewan or I knowing, and killed him?”
yourpaperquest.bsky.social Your Paper Quest @yourpaperquest.bsky.social · Nov 25
Authors! Without context, what's the 8th sentence on the 47th page of your story?
November 26, 2024 at 8:03 PM
brookeabellamy.bsky.social
would really just love for someone to give me a chance in publishing 🥲 feels like I’m going backwards
November 25, 2024 at 9:53 PM
brookeabellamy.bsky.social
I finished Rebecca yesterday and it’s given me suchhh a book hangover 😭 genuinely one of my favorite books I’ve ever read
November 25, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
We must must must resist the idea that generative AI is inevitable. It is not inevitable. People don't really like it. It doesn't do its job well. It removes the humanity from one of the most human-forward things. Not to mention it is an environmental nightmare. Keep banging the drum. Say no to AI.
November 18, 2024 at 7:55 PM
brookeabellamy.bsky.social
I only need to finish 8 more books by the end of the year. Can I do it
A screenshot of my goodreads reading challenge goal, showing that I’ve read 32 of 40 books, and am 3 books behind schedule
November 17, 2024 at 11:42 AM
brookeabellamy.bsky.social
Rewatching The Holiday has become such a treasured tradition for me that I legitimately plan it like an event.

I need no distractions, the comfiest clothes and blankets, the perfect snack, and it has to be juuust before Christmas.

I look forward to it almost as much as Christmas itself. 🥹
a group of men are standing next to each other in a room and looking at each other .
Alt: Jude Law in “The Holiday” wearing a black turtleneck in a busy bar, and looking over his shoulder, smiling
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November 16, 2024 at 9:50 PM
brookeabellamy.bsky.social
✨ bookish checkpoint ✨

last book read: the exorcist by william peter blatty

current reads: my darling dreadful thing by johanna van veen & rebecca by daphne du maurier

last add to tbr: the eye of the ouroboros by @megbontra.bsky.social

next anticipated read: emily wilde’s encyclopedia of faeries
steelhester.bsky.social hester steel @steelhester.bsky.social · Nov 16
👍bookish👍checkpoint👍

last book read: water shall refuse them by lucie mcknight hardy
current reads: a study in drowning by ava reid
last add to tbr: this suggests i'm capable of future planning
next anticipated read: absolution by jeff vandermeer and hammajang luck by makana yamamoto
slhawthorn.bsky.social sarah l. hawthorn (A FATE WORSE THAN DROWNING '26) @slhawthorn.bsky.social · Nov 16
⋆ ˚｡⋆ Bookish Checkpoint⋆｡˚⋆

✧ Last book read: Authority by Jeff Vandermeer (reread)
✧ Current read(s): Acceptance by ^! I've got 7 others I'm currently reading too lol
✧ Last add to TBR: The Faceless Thing We Adore by @steelhester.bsky.social
✧ Next anticipated read: All of my friends' books :)
November 16, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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cassbeewrites.bsky.social
the writers who have 14 different unfinished WIPs yet still regularly post “I might have an idea for a new WIP” are integral to the author ecosystem
November 4, 2024 at 3:10 PM
brookeabellamy.bsky.social
Been doing a little more brainstorming for my snowy cabin horror WIP and getting sooo excited to start drafting again! ❄️🪓
November 16, 2024 at 2:32 PM