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Jenn Lee Frances
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Writer She/Her YA Speculative 👻 Feminist Horror w social commentary & swooning
⭐️Winner: Best Submission Award SCBWI MayFest 2025
& WriteHive 2025 Mentorship
✨Big 5 Editor requests✨
THE TRUTH OF FEAR * Haunted & Hexed * Touch Him & Burn * Kiss Her & Die
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BENT NECK LADY VIBES

🖤Best Submission Award
🖤Big 5 Editor Requests

Simone summoned her murdered cousin, but she wasn't Nina anymore.
MEET THE NEW URBAN LEGEND—
#TheEastRiverWraith

A Good For Her Horror with Romance & Revenge & Reclaiming Power

A Revised #AgentsGuide
Upper #YA #NA #H #Q #Questpit
Image of forbidden loves Simone & Jadriel from my book: THE TRUTH OF FEAR. A Young Adult Feminist Horror, by Jenn Lee Frances. Taglines: Touch Him & Burn. Kiss Her & Die Accolades: Best Submission Award SCBWI MAYFEST conference 2025 *BIG 5 Editor RequestS & Write Hive 2025 Mentorship Winner* *Commissioned art by @demonyong_nini Image of creepy ghost girl, Nina, The East River Wraith. With the tagline: DEATH IS COMING. THE PITCH: When grief-stricken Simone summoned her murdered cousin, the girl who emerged from the shadowy depths wasn't Nina anymore. They call her by another name—The East River Wraith. She’s a malevolent spirit who drowns deserving boys. Simone should help her find peace, but the truth is, she’d rather let Nina be a vengeful ghost than ever lose her again. Except, now The Wraith is taking her rage out on the wrong boy. The one boy Simone has always trusted. Simone is risking her first love’s life & her cousin’s afterlife by holding on to them both. But she can’t let go again. The First Page of my book: The Drowning Girl started haunting my dreams again when my cousin went missing. She was waiting for me every time I shut my eyes in the harrowing weeks before Nina was found and dragged from the river. If I’d known I was foreseeing my cousin’s death most of my life, maybe I could’ve changed it. All I could do was try to help her in the afterlife. Gran always said when one dies a traumatic death their spirit can get stuck in a loop, reliving that violence over and over. I couldn’t let her exist that way. So, I called upon her, with a simple altar placed alongside the memorials for the others who were pulled out of the East River that frigid fall. Striking the long wooden match, I shielded the flame from the wind with my wounded palm, determined to light the final candle. The first for the grieved. The second for protection. The third for invoking that which shouldn’t be spoken. One should never summon the dead. They can always find you. Follow you. Attach themselves to you. I knew better, but I didn’t want my cousin to be trapped. I really just needed to see Nina again. But it wasn’t her who came. THE COMPS BOTTOM TAGLINE: A NEW URBAN LEGEND # THE EAST RIVER WRAITH 3 images of books that would sit on the same shelf as my book: Swoon Worthy like DON’T LET THE FOREST IN: Literary & Commercial Bi 4 Pan Queer Romance Dangerous Codependence Social Commentary Like in SO WITCHES WE BECAME # Good For Her Rage, Revenge, & Reclaiming Power Complicated Family As seen in THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE (Netflix show & Book) Bent Neck Lady Vibes Foreseeing Death & It’s Looking Back
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I took part in Human Voices 4 Human Rights and for my donation I received a professional audiobook narrator to record A PITCH for my YA Horror novel: THE TRUTH OF FEAR.
Here’s the clip! YAY!
Narrated by Courtney Fabrizio
courtneyfabrizio.com @mycousincourtney
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HV4HR_ Jenn Lee (2).mp3
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February 12, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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Donate, help, and get a professional audio snippet of your book! @thornsnrosesdotco.bsky.social
Human Voices 4 Human Rights!
February 11, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉

Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.

Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...
The Next Official #MSWL Day: February 26, 2026 – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website
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February 5, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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A gentle reminder that #MSWL is just for agents and editors to post their wishes. We’ve seen some agents blocking writers posting in the feed, and don’t want this to happen to you!
January 23, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Hey #writers, who'd be up for doing a workshop to raise some funds for Minnesota charities? @alexpenname.bsky.social and I are putting something together.

Repost and spread the word, please!
February 1, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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BENT NECK LADY VIBES

🖤Best Submission Award
🖤Big 5 Editor Requests

Simone summoned her murdered cousin, but she wasn't Nina anymore.
MEET THE NEW URBAN LEGEND—
#TheEastRiverWraith

A Good For Her Horror with Romance & Revenge & Reclaiming Power

A Revised #AgentsGuide
Upper #YA #NA #H #Q #Questpit
Image of forbidden loves Simone & Jadriel from my book: THE TRUTH OF FEAR. A Young Adult Feminist Horror, by Jenn Lee Frances. Taglines: Touch Him & Burn. Kiss Her & Die Accolades: Best Submission Award SCBWI MAYFEST conference 2025 *BIG 5 Editor RequestS & Write Hive 2025 Mentorship Winner* *Commissioned art by @demonyong_nini Image of creepy ghost girl, Nina, The East River Wraith. With the tagline: DEATH IS COMING. THE PITCH: When grief-stricken Simone summoned her murdered cousin, the girl who emerged from the shadowy depths wasn't Nina anymore. They call her by another name—The East River Wraith. She’s a malevolent spirit who drowns deserving boys. Simone should help her find peace, but the truth is, she’d rather let Nina be a vengeful ghost than ever lose her again. Except, now The Wraith is taking her rage out on the wrong boy. The one boy Simone has always trusted. Simone is risking her first love’s life & her cousin’s afterlife by holding on to them both. But she can’t let go again. The First Page of my book: The Drowning Girl started haunting my dreams again when my cousin went missing. She was waiting for me every time I shut my eyes in the harrowing weeks before Nina was found and dragged from the river. If I’d known I was foreseeing my cousin’s death most of my life, maybe I could’ve changed it. All I could do was try to help her in the afterlife. Gran always said when one dies a traumatic death their spirit can get stuck in a loop, reliving that violence over and over. I couldn’t let her exist that way. So, I called upon her, with a simple altar placed alongside the memorials for the others who were pulled out of the East River that frigid fall. Striking the long wooden match, I shielded the flame from the wind with my wounded palm, determined to light the final candle. The first for the grieved. The second for protection. The third for invoking that which shouldn’t be spoken. One should never summon the dead. They can always find you. Follow you. Attach themselves to you. I knew better, but I didn’t want my cousin to be trapped. I really just needed to see Nina again. But it wasn’t her who came. THE COMPS BOTTOM TAGLINE: A NEW URBAN LEGEND # THE EAST RIVER WRAITH 3 images of books that would sit on the same shelf as my book: Swoon Worthy like DON’T LET THE FOREST IN: Literary & Commercial Bi 4 Pan Queer Romance Dangerous Codependence Social Commentary Like in SO WITCHES WE BECAME # Good For Her Rage, Revenge, & Reclaiming Power Complicated Family As seen in THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE (Netflix show & Book) Bent Neck Lady Vibes Foreseeing Death & It’s Looking Back
January 31, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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Yes please!!!! Love me a feminist horror!
January 31, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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The Bent Neck Lady x Don't Let The Forest In

MEET THE NEW URBAN LEGEND
#TheEastRiverWraith

🖤Big 5 Editor Requests
🖤Best Submission Award SCBWI MayFest 2025
🖤Write Hive 2025 Mentorship Winner

A Good For Her Feminist Horror
With Rage, Revenge, Romance & Reclaiming Power.

#QuestPit #YA #NA #H #Q
Image of forbidden loves Simone & Jadriel & The East River Wraith: from my book: THE TRUTH OF FEAR. A Young Adult Feminist Horror, by Jenn Lee Frances. With Romance & Rage & Revenge *Commissioned art by @demonyong_nini Image of creepy ghost girl, Nina, The East River Wraith. A vengeful ghost who drowns deserving boys. But she's taking out her rage on the wrong boy. / With the tagline: A new urban legend. Image of Simone with her hand on fire. Tagline: touch him & burn. SImone is haunted and hexed. She's risking Jadriel's life & Nina's afterlife. Tagline: Kiss her and die. Bi boy next door, Jadriel Estrella, is Simone's cursed first love. And one of the only boys she trusts. But Nina doesn't.
January 31, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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DON'T LET THE FOREST IN x BENT NECK LADY

Simone's risking Jadriel's Life & Nina's Afterlife

🖤AWARD Best Submission SCBWI MayFest 2025
🖤WINNER WriteHive Mentorship 2025
🖤Big 5 Editor Requests

GRIEF-RAGE-POWER
Romance & Revenge
A NEW URBAN LEGEND #TheEastRiverWraith
#YA #S Feminist #H #R #QuestPit
November 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Haunted or hacked?
👻🎶
I’m writing a ghost story so make of this what you will
Random songs started playing on my computer today. Two times. Different songs. I didn’t have the app up.
1st song: Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
2nd song: Vasoline by Stone Temple Pilots
What’s this ghost trying to tell me?
January 28, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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I *think* I’m going to do a new agents guide for my revised ms (it’s really horror leaning) for #questpit
Looking forward to seeing everyone’s pitches & trading support !
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
This kicks off on Wednesday. So many amazing opportunities here, with plans to do some good.

Let’s get to work. 💪🏽 www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...
Publishing for Minnesota
Silent auction 'Publishing for Minnesota' hosted online at 32auctions.
www.32auctions.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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tomtomorrow.bsky.social
ICE out of our cities
ICE out of our country
ICE out of existence
January 24, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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An agent I am very excited about, who requested my full & said she'd wait for me to finish my rewrite--reached back out to me to say she's still very interested in my manuscript & was checking in. EeeEE.

Working as fast as I can.
*Editing vibes only*
a candle is burning on a piece of paper that says ' i love you ' on it
ALT: a candle is burning on a piece of paper that says ' i love you ' on it
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January 16, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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Since the last one sold out and folks have been nudging, I’ve put a second query workshop up.

Three Zoom hangs, notes on your first ten pages, a critique of your query… it’ll be fun.

Also these help me fund my local events. Help me, help you! 🥰 www.ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2025/12...
New Year, New Query: A Second Workshop to Get You Ready — ERIC SMITH
Well, the first query letter workshop sold out, and a few folks have been kind enough to message me, asking if I’ll do another one. And while I don’t think I’ll have the time to run one later in the y...
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January 6, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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This sounds delicious! 😍
November 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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DON'T LET THE FOREST IN x BENT NECK LADY

Simone's risking Jadriel's Life & Nina's Afterlife

🖤AWARD Best Submission SCBWI MayFest 2025
🖤WINNER WriteHive Mentorship 2025
🖤Big 5 Editor Requests

GRIEF-RAGE-POWER
Romance & Revenge
A NEW URBAN LEGEND #TheEastRiverWraith
#YA #S Feminist #H #R #QuestPit
November 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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OMG, this is FIRE!!! 🔥😍
November 5, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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For Fans of the Lyrical & Creeping Angst of
DON'T LET THE FOREST IN

🖤AWARD for Best Submission SCBWI MayFest 2025
🖤WINNER Write Hive Mentorship 2025
🖤3 Big 5 Editor Requests

🖤Simone is Haunted & Hexed in THE TRUTH OF FEAR

#Spec Upper #YA Crossover #NA Feminist Horror + Romance #S #H #R #QuestPit
November 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Today is RELEASE DAY for CHASING STARDUST!

Share & Comment to Enter for one of 5 ten-page critiques if it hits NY Times or USA Today Bestselling List in Nov! If both, I’ll give away 10!

Check out this article for CHASING STARDUST & pick up your copy today!!
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We chat with author Erica Lucke Dean about Chasing Stardust, which is a funny and heartfelt novel about learning who your parents are as people, finding yourself, and falling in love in the strangest ...
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November 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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This curse doesn’t keep Simone from wanting to put her hands on Jadriel.

Good and cruel gods *all* she wants is to touch him, even if it burns her from the inside out.

But if she lets him kiss her, it'll kill him.
Unless her cousin’s vengeful spirit ends him first.
👻
#GhostPit #YA #NA #SPEC #H #R
October 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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🖤Haunted & Hexed
🖤Touch Him & Burn
🖤Kiss Her & Die

This curse doesn’t keep Simone from wanting to put her hands on Jadriel.

Good and cruel gods *all* she wants is to touch him—even if it burns her from the inside out.

But, if she lets him kiss her, it'll kill him.

#PitDark #YA #NA #SPEC #H #R
October 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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You had me at Bent Neck Lady (that sounds sinister but I was obsessed with Haunting Of Hill House!!)
a woman wearing a white off the shoulder dress and a gold necklace
ALT: a woman wearing a white off the shoulder dress and a gold necklace
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October 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Like THE BENT NECK LADY:

The Drowning Girl haunted Simone's dreams long before Nina was murdered

She feared her cousin's spirit was stuck in a trauma loop, reliving her violent death—but one should never summon the dead

Now they call her vengeful ghost #TheEastRiverWraith

#GhostPit #YA #SPEC #H
October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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When Simone dreamt of The Drowning Girl she didn’t know she was seeing her Cousin's murder.
Now, They call her The East River Wraith.
A vengeful ghost who drowns deserving boys—but Nina might take her rage out on the wrong boy.

Bent Neck Lady X Don't Let The Forest In
#PitDark #YA #Spec #H #LH
October 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM