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Jennifer Luce
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🩷 2025 SmoochPit Mentee
🖤 GUMIHO (Adult Horrormance)

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Jennifer Luce @jenniferluce.bsky.social · Nov 23
MEXICAN GOTHIC X CRIMSON PEAK

🇰🇷A dark reimagining of the Korean folktale Heungbu and Nolbu
👻Haunted Houses
🥀Sentient Gardens
🖤Buried Family Secrets
✨️Biracial Representation

#WIPPit #A #G #H #F
A dark reimagining of the korean folktale Heungbu and Nolbu, haunted houses & sentient gardens, biracial representation, buried family secrets THE SEEDS OF OUR SINS Adult Gothic Fantasy Horror MEXICAN GOTHIC X CRIMSON PEAK When Seo-Yun returns to her estranged grandmother'sisland estate to investigateher family's history of disappearances, she finds a house steeped in rot and the once prized garden now withered and dying. As the decay in the house mysteriously begins to heal, while creeping vines from the garden hungrily spread throughout the halls, whispering warnings of a faceless ghost that draws closer each passing night, Seo-Yun must unearth generations of her family's secrets—and the truth buried in her grandmother’s garden—before she becomes the next woman claimed by its dark history. A moodboard with a picture of a woman under a curtain, a foggy forest, a woman staring into the forest, wilted flowers, a foggy ocean, wilted vines, a woman standing in fog, korean architecture, a woman at a window
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With a little less than two months until the 2025 #SmoochPit Agent Showcase, here's a moodboard & vibes for GUMIHO! I can't wait to share my Korean folklore-inspired adult fantasy blended with strong elements of horror and romance!

#writingcommunity #fantasy #urbanfantasy #romance #horror
A mood board with the name GUMIHO over the pictures of: A full moon, a city, a woman with an umbrella sitting in the rain, tea, a woman staring out a window while its raining, a woman running in a hanbok, a woman staring at a flower, a rose dripping in the rain, two people holding hands
January 22, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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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
January 13, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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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
January 13, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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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
January 13, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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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
January 13, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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An #editorsguide to 🌲THE LAND OF UNDYING SUMMER🌲
This romantic fantasy has:
🐻‍❄️ Canadian subarctic inspired setting
🌋Roots in animistic religion
⚡️A physics based magic system
👵🏽 Crotchety immortals
🏠 Complex family dynamics
🌎 Accessible worldbuilding

#bluepit📖 #A #F #R #FR #OS soon 👀
On a background of a foggy coniferous forest. The background of the four images fit together to show a stream with rocks working its way between two hills in the forest, both covered with trees. In white text: An Editor’s Guide To The Land of Undying Summer by Ivy T. Woods Adult Romantic Fantasy 108,000 words On a background of a foggy coniferous forest. The background of the four images fit together to show a stream with rocks working its way between two hills in the forest, both covered with trees. On the left side of the picture is an ink drawn map of a continent. In white text: Pitch When a half-dead priestess is forced to work with a wandering mage to figure out why mages are dwindling among her people, they develop a reluctant camaraderie. But when he kills a guard, her people’s distrust escalates into a full-scale uprising, leaving the two loners to save the living, the dead, and each other. Though not necessarily in that order. On a background of a foggy coniferous forest. The background of the four images fit together to show a stream with rocks working its way between two hills in the forest, both covered with trees. In white text: Comps The atmosphere and vibes of: - The Gilded Crown by Marianne Gordon - Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang The Humour Of: - Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher On a background of a foggy coniferous forest. The background of the four images fit together to show a stream with rocks working its way between two hills in the forest, both covered with trees. In white text Chapter One - The End of Darkness No Guide could resist the Call of Return forever. But this time, when Tilaani’s trembling hands closed on the spiked rocks of the Wolf’s Fangs, the agonizing need for the missing part of herself had dulled to an aching throb. The Call would take her eventually. But not today. Today, she was already running late. “Shit!” Tilaani snatched her cloak from the icy stalagmite she had been using as a hanger and staggered to a slim crack in the cliff face. It had been a century since the passage had opened in one of El’Drek’s rages but the frozen stone was still jagged, tugging at her shirt as she sidled through, thin cloak clutched in one hand. Wind whistled through the crevice, peppering her exposed skin with hard snow. It melted, steaming as it touched her. Time within the cavern had always been malleable, misaligned with the world outside. Shinac had always claimed the shifts were random but Tilaani had her doubts. It always seemed to stretch whenever she was in a hurry. She wouldn’t put it past any of the dead—either Blessed or Barred—to extend time merely to inconvenience her. And now, backing up this theory, the sun was high overhead and the few hours she had spent being lectured by the Ancients had become nearly an entire night and day in the land of the living. Allak would be insufferable if she was late.
January 13, 2026 at 5:30 AM
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A guide to my #WIP 🌊 SCULPTOR OF THE WINDS 🌊
Book 1 in a planned duology, it has:
⚓️ Seafaring adventures
🌋Roots in animistic religion
⚡️A physics based magic system
🐙 Sea monsters large and small
🏠 Complex family dynamics
🌎 Accessible worldbuilding

#bluepit📖 #A #F #R #FR #W #LGBT #OV
Over a background with a pink octopus and curling tentacles in dark blue water. The four backgrounds of each picture come together to show one image. In white text: Guide to Sculptor of the Winds by Ivy T. Woods Book 1 in the Sea of Sorrows Duology Romantic Pirate Fantasy Over a background with a pink octopus and curling tentacles in dark blue water. The four backgrounds of each picture come together to show one image. To the left in white text: Pitch When Minna is offered a place weaving the winds—and protecting the ship from monsters—on one of the largest ships in the Fleet, it comes with a catch: her betrothal to the Deckmistress’ son. Bullied by her mother, Minna takes the deal, surprised to find that her betrothed and her new Deckmistress are actually quite tolerable. But when they capture one of the monsters terrorizing the Sea of Sorrows, Minna is forced into the role of jailer while they interrogate the monster, trying to force her to give up the location of the monsters’ lair. But as Minna’s monstrous prisoner proves herself to be surprisingly human, Minna becomes intent on saving her from her inevitable execution, going against her Deckmistress, her betrothed, and the entire crew. But the other monsters are drawn to their own. And they are coming. To the right is a picture of a tall ship with two sails up on the main mast against an orange horizon, with rocks in the foreground on the right Over a background with a pink octopus and curling tentacles in dark blue water. The four backgrounds of each picture come together to show one image. In white text: Comps & Tropes Seafaring adventure Arranged marriage Monster love interest Yearning Bisexual main character Images of the covers for The Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl Bury our bones in the midnight soil by V. E. Schwab Over a background with a pink octopus and curling tentacles in dark blue water. The four backgrounds of each picture come together to show one image. In white text: First Lines The first body was bloated and black, rising and settling with each rush of water up the sand, its sun-bleached trousers caught on a protrusion of rock. Thick veins of black ran underneath the dark skin, branching out and away from the missing chunk of flesh in the dead man’s shoulder. “Fucking seas,” Minna muttered. “Washing in or out, do you figure?” Her father grunted, reaching down to pluck at the torn and bloody pants, dislodging them from the rock keeping the body anchored to the shoreline. The next wave rushed in to claim its prize, sucking the body back down the beach as it withdrew. “I suppose we’ll see.” Her father shielded his eyes with a hand, silver hairs shining in the sun as he squinted inland. “Body can’t be too old. Tide would have taken it.”
January 13, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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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
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.
January 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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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
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".
January 13, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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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 monster
🖤 Bubonic plague
🖤 Only one grave

#agentsguide #gothic #horrormance
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.
January 11, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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They say the final act is the hardest to survive. After a lot of blood, sweat, and eleventh-hour decisions, I’m beyond thrilled to announce that I’m now represented by @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social at Mad Woman Literary Agency!

I can't wait to work on making Hotel Adair even more deadly.
December 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Things are wrapping up for the year but I've fully revised my manuscript and posting my updated #agentsguide for LAST CHANCE MATCH with agent interest! #litagents, if you're interested in this concept, it's ready to read over the holidays ❤️

#amquerying
An agent's guide to LAST CHANCE MATCH, a 93k adult speculative psychological horromance: find the one who's to die for. 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. The opening pages of LAST CHANCE MATCH The Comps: SQUID GAME BLACK MIRROR LOVE ISLAND THE COMPOUND BY AISLING RAWLE HIDE BY KEIRSTEN WHITE
December 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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I just got to type the two most beautiful words I'll ever write. 🥹😭
December 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Lazy #wippit 😂
zillawrites.bsky.social zilla @zillawrites.bsky.social · Nov 16
TALK TO ME x THE GIRLS ARE ALL SO NICE HERE x CABIN IN THE WOODS

* dual timeline
* tarot & ouija boards & seances
* OBX setting
* bachelorette weekend with a body count
* best friends forever (as a curse)
November 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Dynamic between my two MC's:

“I’m gonna drop,” I warned.

“I’ll catch you.”

Not my point. Really he just needed to get out of my way, but blood from the cuts on my hand was already making my grip tenuous. I didn’t want to hold on any longer just to argue the point.

#WIPPit #YA #SFF #amdrafting
November 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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*The Best Kisser in Prague*
🇨🇿
90s vibes
Slow burn romance
Historical context
Autofiction

#WIP #NA #R #HS
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
#wippit
Images: cassette tapes, Prague tram, club, drinks and photos on a table; center image of couple kissing; The best kisser in prague
November 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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*The Best Kisser in Prague*
🇨🇿
90s vibes
Slow burn
Historical context
Autofiction

#NA #UP
#Wippit

Mika and Dominik aren't looking for a connection.
It's Prague. The early 90s. Nothing is permanent. There are no rules.
They're each trying so hard to lose themself - can they find each other?
Image of young woman holding a drink, with head on the table
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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*The Best Kisser in Prague*
🇨🇿
90s vibes
Slow burn
Historical context
Autofiction

#NA #UP
#Wippit

Mika and Dominik aren't looking for a connection.
It's Prague. The early 90s. Nothing is permanent. There are no rules.
They're each trying so hard to lose themself - can they find each other?
Images: casettes, silhouette of Charles Bridge, young man and young woman; Text: The Best Kisser in Prague
November 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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querying soon:

BRIDGET JONES X 4 WEDDINGS & A FUNERAL

A woman finds herself deciding between two suitors or moving to London when the two men find out about each other and it turns into a 'why choose' love triangle.

#wippit #a #r
moodboard w book title
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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BEFORE SUNRISE X BOOK LOVERS

In Barcelona on a sisters trip, law school grad Spencer runs into her ex. All's well until her sister's erratic behavior adds to her mountain of stress. She must decide if a relationship is something she can hold space for. #wippit #a #r
November 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Tai’s in trouble. The ship has a 1-star rating, the crew aren’t speaking, and the criminals who want them dead are hot on their trail. If they want to keep everyone safe, Tai will have to introduce their human partner to their old-money family. It's going to be a hard decision. #WIPPit #SF #LGBT
A blue, black, and white movie poster for my work in progress, working title "Cargo 2", inspired by Saul Bass's famous vintage posters for Vertigo and The Man With the Golden Hand: "No Poverty, no crime. Tai’s homeworld iS The perfect Place to hidE their Human Partner from the criminals who want her dead. Too bad someone in Tai's rich, politically-connected family has other ideas." Cargo 2: Three grandparents, six parents, eleven siblings, one human. The credits section is as follows: CATHERINE WINTERS AND COREWARD BAKER PRODUCTIONS LTD PRESENT A CATHERINE WINTERS NOVEL ‘CARGO’ STARRING TAI OF MICAPA THYLLIS CHAUMEDEROT TALATAGARI QUIRIN TALATAGARI ANENTO FRANK THE CAT JEREL BESKROS CHOST MOL RAZIK FEATURING COOL MOSS ABOVE STILL WATER AND INTRODUCING CLARKE SHIPS BY SETEBO-URANQ AND CONSTANT VERIDITY INTERSTELLAR COSTUMES BY UPPER CORE ATELIER “HUMAN” CREATURE EFFECTS BY 3.8 BILLION YEARS OF EVOLUTION CASTING BY THE TRADE AUTHORITY WRITTEN BY CATHERINE WINTERS DIRECTED BY CATHERINE WINTERS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CATHERINE WINTERS WITH APOLOGIES TO SAUL BASS Catherine Winters dot Com
November 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA × BEST SERVED COLD × THE BUTCHER BOY

When a Court Jester snaps and kills the tyrant king, he must joke and slay his way out of a kingdom in chaos while his sanity frays, hunted by loyalists, hailed by rebels:

MARK OF THE JESTER

#WIPPIT #A #F #H
Moodboard for a dark fantasy novel featuring a jester, regicide and a kingdom in chaos.
November 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Nia Moredi just wants to look out for her little brother. Miss Laval needs to attend a governess-teacher meeting. Baarsin Dorvierre’s being watched. Pickpocket Wren needs to recharge her misdirection charm. If only Nia could remember which of them she’s supposed to be today. #WIPPit #YA #F #LGBT
A mood board of eight tiles and a centre square with lockpicking tools and ancient writing: 1. Always have an escape plan. 2. A swindler never lets herself feel like a fraud. 3. Don't look for the easy grab, look for the easy mark. 4. Never get involved with golems. The pictures depict, clockwise from upper right: A) A city of canals and towering footbridges. There are minarets and steeples and red-tiled roofs. B) A market selling elaborate lanterns, all aglow. C) A porcelain and gold hand, reaching upwards. D) Two figures leaping across rooftops against the coming dawn. E) A pocketwatch--or is it? Constellations and continents cover the front, the body of the watch engraved with runes. It's sitting on ancient parchment. F) A wax stamp with removable chits that function as coins in a card game. G) The lords of the city overlooking grand canals and issuing edicts. They are dressed in fine red robes and silks. H) Assorted bones and shells used for divination and more.
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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'Tis the Season for Christmas RomComs!

Charlotte and her best friends are working through her late husband's final gift to her: a marathon of Christmas activities! With romance in the air, she'll have to decide between staying just friends or risking a second chance at love!

#WIPPIT #A #R
Untitled Christmas RomCom is displayed over a snowy background of the US Capitol building. In the foreground a blonde woman in glasses is flanked on either side by her love interests: a non-binary goth with a side shave and a bubbly buxom red head.
November 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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#WIPPit #A #R #F

SWORDCROSSED X FAEBOUND

Under The Royal Guard’s Gaze

- forced proximity
- 18th century fashion
- human x elf
- trans MC
- hidden identities
- betrothal
- poly-positive
- secret rebellion
- deadly curses
- floriography
- dragons
1 Chapter 1| The thick canopy of tenebrous trees whips past me as I sprint, eyes locked on the sky and fist grasping the locket at my sternum. Flickers of sunlight filter through the twisted leaves, and each breath is hampered by the tight binding wrapped around my chest. The icy air freezes my lungs further, a wheezing pain with every exhale. I can't keep running like this. Heart throbbing, I dive to the right, somersaulting behind a particularly thick trunk with peeling umber bark. My knee catches on a sharp rock. The fabric tears with a loud groan from my throat, but bushes thankfully shield me from sight on either side. Crimson blooms through the muddy fabric until my exposed and excoriated knee is pulsing severely. I'd say I have about ten seconds before I've lost my lead. I let go of Mom's locket, adrenaline thick in my veins. Reaching under my tunic, my fingers catch on the thick, rough fabric coiled around my breasts like a constricting serpent. I wanted to feel like myself today. But if I don't release my bindings, I won't be able to run fast enough. It's worth the risk. Finding the tucked knot, I snap my fingers on my right hand, a flame bursting from the tip of my index finger. It burns through the fibers, a smoky scent flooding the air and heat rising on my flesh. Willing the flame hotter, I sear through the knot, and the binding unravels. Light, rapid footsteps sound in the quiet forest. Shit. I scan the direction I came from. In the far distance, a masked man's silver eyes flash in the emerging sunlight. He's just a speck of darkness in the grey morning, but approaching faster than I'd ever expect. Shoving the loose binding in my waistband, I race through the unusually silent Cantora Forest, slightly limping and cursing my luck. This is what I get for following a
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM