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Donna Ho
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Author ✍️ | Fiction editor 📚 | Querying—Debut YA Paranormal Romance (Completed): She hated seeing ghosts…until she fell for one
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Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · Nov 5
IF I HAVE TO BE HAUNTED X BELLADONNA

👻🔮 Reluctant Medium
❤️‍🔥🕰️ Slowburn Sweet Romance
🤝🏡 Found Family
💀💞 Ghost Boyfriend
🕯️✨ Séances

#QuestPit #YA #Q #PF #agentsguide
dhoedits.bsky.social
I understand the algorithm about as well as I understood what made people popular in high school. 🤷🏼‍♀️
January 11, 2026 at 5:42 PM
dhoedits.bsky.social
Woke up from a much needed nap with this in my head.

Pardon my craft, I was half asleep.

What happens when a wounded girl kisses her BFFs empath brother.
December 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
dhoedits.bsky.social
The Princess Bride has been, from the moment I first watched it as a child, my favorite movie of all time. Along with my GOAT, he has been responsible for so many other amazing films. The news of Rob Reiner's tragic passing along with his wife, is just shocking.

#RIPRobReiner
December 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
dhoedits.bsky.social
When a successful author befriends you on X, eyebrows rise and credulity wears thin.

But, I’m riding the train until the next stop. Let’s see where this goes.
December 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
dhoedits.bsky.social
Boy, oh boy! The level of ‘expertise’ of some people in the writing community on X is astounding.
December 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
dhoedits.bsky.social
Success! I got my manuscript below 90k and I don't hate myself!

Now, #litagent question: Update outstanding queries about reduced word count? Or no?
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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tom.medsky.social
Dear white people:

Please teach your kids that saying someone has "chinky eyes" is just as racist as calling them a "chink".

Regards,
an Asian Dad
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
dhoedits.bsky.social
Thoughts on this format for pitch events? Or just sharing about my WIP and Querying projects?

#writesky #amquerying #amwriting
A ghost-blue teenage boy on the left and a blonde teenage girl on the right face each other in profile against a dark, misty background. The boy looks sad and longing; the girl looks shocked and breathless. Center text reads “Snippets from: In Between.” Beneath that is a romantic quote about him wishing he could kiss her, and her heart feeling like it might melt. Header text at the top says “96K | YA Paranormal Romance — a standalone with series potential.”
November 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
dhoedits.bsky.social
Sixteen-year-old Annabelle Croft wants everyone to leave her alone—especially the dead. But when Will, her golden-boy lab partner, goes missing and then returns as a ghost, this prickly medium has to figure out what happened—if only to get him to go away.

#FiFrevpit #mockpit
November 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
dhoedits.bsky.social
Wordle 1,602 4/6

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⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
🟨🟩🟨🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Been a minute since I played.
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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#WIPSnips #writersky
dhoedits.bsky.social Donna Ho @dhoedits.bsky.social · Nov 7
Oooh, instead of working on Book 2 WIP, I went back and tweaked some on IN BETWEEN.

#amquerying #amwriting #WIPsnippets
The clouds seemed to drop from the sky and settle around the weathered headstones. She ran deeper into the cemetery, into the darkness gathering around her. Trees loomed overhead, their branches pressing down like twisted fingers trying to catch the moonlight, fracturing it and casting the graveyard—cemetery, she corrected herself—in an eerie, red-tinged glow.
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
dhoedits.bsky.social
Oooh, instead of working on Book 2 WIP, I went back and tweaked some on IN BETWEEN.

#amquerying #amwriting #WIPsnippets
The clouds seemed to drop from the sky and settle around the weathered headstones. She ran deeper into the cemetery, into the darkness gathering around her. Trees loomed overhead, their branches pressing down like twisted fingers trying to catch the moonlight, fracturing it and casting the graveyard—cemetery, she corrected herself—in an eerie, red-tinged glow.
November 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
dhoedits.bsky.social
This sounds fantastic and heart-wrenching!
andreabrownlit.bsky.social Andrea Brown Literary Agency @andreabrownlit.bsky.social · Nov 4
It's a School Library Journal star for NEVER SEEN THE STARS by Kate Korsh!

⭐ "This is a standout story that is equal parts sad and hopeful, with extremely relatable and beautiful explorations of grief, disability, and loss.” ⭐

Read the full review here

@marchsoloway.bsky.social
“This is a standout story that is equal parts sad and hopeful, with extremely relatable and beautiful explorations of grief, disability, and loss.” - a School Library Journal starred review for Never Seen the Stars by Kate Korsh!
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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kvanamburg.bsky.social
Spooky pastel sapphic Florida you have my whole heart!! 💖👻
snlefebvre.bsky.social Sarah LeFebvre @snlefebvre.bsky.social · Nov 5
BIANCA TORRE IS AFRAID OF EVERYTHING X CEMETERY BOYS

📝Ghostwriter to a ghost
💗Pastel paranormal
👻Vengeful spirit
🎭Haunted theater
🖤Séance-gone-awry
🌴Florida summer vibes (but spooky)
🌈F/F romance (not with the ghost!)
💕One bed

#questpit #YA #PR #LGBT #Q
A collage of images that represent the vibe of the book, including a pastel blue and pink beach, a blue and pink sky behind palm trees, a pink ouija keychain, pain roller skates, pink hair, a pink building behind palm trees, fingers typing on a laptop keyboard, a black and white photo of a woman in 1920s attire, white converse on a longboard, a glowing red theatre sign, and a red and gold theatre stage. Hearts surround a pink text box. The text reads: Sadie expects to be an amateur ghost hunter for a night at a haunted theater, not the sole witness to her favorite paranormal author’s death. Now she’ll have to team up with the author’s living sister to stop a vengeful spirit and help a ghost finish her final manuscript before someone else winds up dead.
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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dillydahly.bsky.social
Exsanguine Cryptids
She must face danger, folkloric monsters, and the government agents responsible for releasing them in order to reunite with her younger brother before the country collapses- or one of them dies.

🥰sapphic romance
Stranger>Friends>❤️‍🔥
💕slow burn
🚗 road trip
#questpit #W #YA #PR #SF
Exsanguine Cryptids Dahlya Byrne a YA supernatural sci-fi apocalypse PitchA vengeful government set on reasserting its authority through violence and misinformation disrupts the life of 19 year old Xiomara. Armed with nothing but the determination of an eldest daughter, she travels across the US facing folkloric monsters and government agents alike, to reunite with her estranged younger sibling. Along the way, she becomes the unwilling leader to Jada, an old classmate she can’t quite seem to get a grasp on (or out of her head) and Rally, an older, yet surprisingly well equipped, woman with an affinity for conspiracies and substances of all kind. Eight O'Clock in the Morning Ray Faraday Nelson *Subliminal Messages, Propaganda, Lizard People Veil Haven by Anne M. Kelley * Cryptids, Lies & Secrets, LGBTQ+, Diverse The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro *Mexican Folklore, Family Secrets, Generational Trauma I walk with my hands stretched out before me. One step. Two steps. Three steps. No wall. Four steps. No wall. Five steps. Nothing. The air feels different. Warmer. Yet, a chill runs through me, prickling from inside my skin. My neighbor had a dog I often walked, Pancho. She didn’t pay much for how bad the dog was. It pulled and pulled on its leash, if not for being the size of a shoebox, it likely would have dragged me along with it, taken off on the hot streets of New Mexico. Dragged me past the dirt roads and onto the concrete sidewalk on the way to the park. My neighbor was old, she didn’t often get to grooming the dog. It was scraggly, fat, with long long nails. Often I would close my eyes as we walked, listening to the birds, wind, and scratching of Pancho’s nails against the floor. The sound emanating from the murk of this alley was strikingly similar. A sixth step forward is not an option. But would the wall behind me still exist? The warmth ahead of me grew to a heat that roasted my skin and made each breathe an effort. Sweat dripped down my face and pooled on my upper lip. How long have I stood here?I’m reminded of the summer heat wave I spent locked outside. I often laid in the yard, too tired, too hot, too thirsty, to move even to the shade of a nearby bush. It grew flowers of a pale pink and muted red. Before that week, me and my mother often picked these flowers to make into tea. I didn’t mind that she would throw my picks to the side, as I could collect them to decorate my dresser top, enjoying the scents every morning until she scolded me for bringing garbage inside and hoisted them out. Maybe the flowers were purple, actually. Yes I remember, the flowers were a deep purple, just like the vase I threw at her head. Just like the blood that spilled out of it. The air was hot like the blood that spilled out of it. It was so hot. Like the air during the heatwave, like the blood of the vase, like the purple of my mother’s head. Like the- I hear a scream I…
November 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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arachnereid.bsky.social
Experience a vision of transformation through the ruins of the former US.

Using the power of meditation, archaic tech, and ancient survival skills, an empath-scholar's quest to save her people is a narrative guide on how to thrive in civilization’s aftermath. 🌱

#A #Q #S #SFF #questpit #clifi
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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elizabethtitus.bsky.social
🔥 WHAT will GROW from the ASHES of our fallen civilization?

🕸️ a post collapse adventure of psychic powers and nurturing community

🔮 journey through the tarot across the former US, with unexpected twists

🌱 Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built

#A #Q #S #SFF #questpit #hopepunk #clifi
a Death tarot card I drew titled "What rises from the ashes" with death on a moped, a sun tarot card, a lovers tarot card, a color Hermit tarot card (I did all the art) quotes: "Every end is a beginning" - Tai Gong Diao "Light shines brightest in the deepest dark!" - Jim Butcher a variety of photos from my travels (+one dilapidated shack I did not capture myself) of reflective water in various landscapes and urban decay and plants growing through, swamp, fire, bridges, a map of the US with shrunken coastline over a sunset sky with leaves growing from dead branches elemental magic visions survival skills climate fiction #clifi indigenous futurism plant medicine meditation wilderness permaculture neotribalism community backpacking post-apocalyptic hopepunk
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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rsheridan92.bsky.social
THE SLOW BURN is an 82k word contemporary romcom featuring:

🔥 Slow burn
🤷 "Keep it casual, and no one gets hurt"
🏘️ Small town
🚒 MMC in uniform
💜 Found family
🎄 Holiday vibes

#questpit #q #a #r #amquerying
She's an event planner up for a promotion. He's a firefighter, and her dad is his chief. Together, they're planning the fire department's holiday gala. They're about to find out how complicated "casual" can be.
November 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
dhoedits.bsky.social
IF I HAVE TO BE HAUNTED x BELLADONNA

Hawk’s Mill looks like a normal New England town…
but it’s actually a deathtrap with a body count & a ticking clock ⏳
Annabelle’s gift might save the town… or destroy the boy she loves 💔

Check out my pinned post!

#QuestPit #YA #PR #Q #thisisfine
A quiet New England street in autumn. White houses and a church steeple line the road under bright red and gold trees. In the bottom right corner, a small cartoon dog sits calmly at a table with a coffee mug.
November 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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rsheridan92.bsky.social
THE SLOW BURN (82k words)

She’s an event planner up for a promotion. He’s a firefighter and her dad is his chief. They’re planning the fire dept’s holiday gala and agree to a no-strings fling.

Small town
Holiday romance
Found family
MMC in uniform
Slow burn

#amquerying #questpit #a #r #q
The Slow Burn photo grid featuring atmospheric images of a small town and a couple
November 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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nikkipwrites.bsky.social
THE DARK CURSE
Middle Grade Fantasy 84k words

If you could wake up in your favourite video game, would you want to?

More to the point, would you ever want to leave?

#questpit #MG #F #LGBT #Q
A collage of pictures, with a young male hand reaching out to grab them: a sword and knights helmet, someone casting a fire spell, an inviting path into the woods, a knight holding a sword, a mountain behind an old-fashioned house, a cloaked magic user, a white horse galloping, and a mountain range.
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
dhoedits.bsky.social
IF I HAVE TO BE HAUNTED X LIBRARY OF SHADOWS

A missing golden boy returns as a ghost 👻
and the only way to save him is to stop the resurrection of a Puritan warlock hungry for souls 🩸

#QuestPit #YA #PR #Q
A foggy cemetery at dawn. A stone lamppost shaped like a cross glows with warm light in the foreground. Fallen leaves and wet stones line a narrow path. More lamps and blurred gravestones fade into the mist in the distance.
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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bvbodegom.bsky.social
CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END

When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign.

#QuestPit #A #H #M
The image, made with free non-AI stock pictures, shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color. The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects. At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title.
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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rosasuzanne.bsky.social
When Jude returns to her hometown after a decade away, she thinks the worst things she'll face are the people she left behind. But when she accidentally sets loose a reality-twisting monster, she must rally her former friends to stop their town from being erased from existence.

#QuestPit #A #F #W
A collage of images displaying the vibe of what this book pitch is about. Some of the images depict stone walls with wooden fences, tables in the middle of grassy fields, the seaside and cats sleeping atop books. Hidden views and lots of cozy cottages. Text reads: For fans of • Starling House • Practical Magic • Spells for Forgetting Small seaside town • Cottagecore • Small magics • Nightmare monster • Childhood friends to reluctant allies to found family • Crumbling reality A second collage of images displaying the vibe of what this book pitch is about. Some of the images depict seaside towns, gods swimming, a couple dancing on the sea shore, a misty hill too and lots of cozy looking cottages.
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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tamaratoday.bsky.social
SIX OF CROWS X WHAT WAKES THE BELLS

After his sister is cursed by a vengeful goddess, a former pickpocket must steal a relic from the most powerful man in the city to save her. But he can’t pull it off alone, and not everyone in his ragtag crew can be trusted.

#QuestPit #NA #F #BVM #POC #Q #Heist
Left to right. Top row: A foggy city with a spire in the background. The hands of a clock approaching 12. Smoke from an explosive in a building. Middle row: A man in a waistcoat pointing at something. “Tick… Tock…” A man in a waistcoat sitting down. Bottom row: Silver coins covered in blood. A group of people standing inside a clock tower. Rain on a cobblestone street.
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM