Jenn Lee Frances
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Jenn Lee Frances
@jennleefrances.bsky.social
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
Pinned
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
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This sounds delicious! 😍
November 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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
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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November 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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
🖤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
media.tenor.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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
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
She’s beautiful in ALL her gore.

Like Halloween past, dressed up as a little dead girl.
Nina was cute & creepy & made me dress as something fiendish too—so we’d be scarier than all the ghouls
Then maybe they wouldn’t notice us
But they always do
No matter what we’re wearing
👻
#GhostPit #YA #SPEC #H
October 30, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Alma Katsu and Becky Spratford discuss the current popularity of horror. Loved the parts about diversity opening up the genre. The wider the range of voices, the more interesting and engaging horror becomes. ❤️ @almakatsu.bsky.social @raforall.bsky.social
Why Is Horror Having a Moment? Authors Alma Katsu and Becky Spratford Break It Down (Exclusive)
The horror genre is having a major moment in the world of books and publishing, and authors Alma Katsu and Becky Spratford are getting together to discuss why. The authors of 'Fiend' and 'Why I Love H...
people.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Congratulations! 🎉 You are killing it!
August 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
✨Best Submission Award SCBWI MayFest✨

Simone is a seer
Who is haunted and hexed
If she touches Jadriel it burns
But if he kisses her—Death will come for him

*Unless her murdered cousin's spirit ends him before the curse can

🖤Feminist Horror with Romance & Revenge🖤
#YA #H #R #PosterPit #Q soon!
August 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I Won an award!!
✨Best Submission at SCBWI MayFest 2025 for my manuscript excerpt The Truth of Fear ! ✨
Thank you @jolenehaley.bsky.social !!
May 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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The auction is LIVE!
We have incredible items up for grabs—from signed copies of rare and fabulous books to agent critiques and more.
Please check it out, boost, share, and participate if you can. Every bit helps!
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Help Soumi Rebuild Her Life Auction
Silent auction 'Help Soumi Rebuild Her Life Auction' hosted online at 32auctions.
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May 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I had this form of lymes and it was horrific. I couldn’t breathe. Turns out my white blood cells (or red?) were being consumed by the parasite.
Left unchecked=death.
Luckily I went to the docs: who
Told me I was just dehydrated, but I said oh I had a tick-only days ago. Other lymes shows up later.
May 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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That pitch card though . . . ! 👀 Talk about forbidden love!
May 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Gorgeousssss
Oh I know this is gonna be snatched up so soon, I can’t wait to see this one shelves 🤩🥰
May 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🖤HAUNTED & HEXED
🖤TOUCH HIM & BURN
🖤KISS HER & DIE

When the whispers of the spell become screams…
Death Will Come

✔️2 Big 5 Editor Requests
✔️10 Literary Agent Full Requests *RN*
✔️Winner WriteHive Mentorship 2025
✔️Revised & Soon to be #amquerying

#AgentsGuide #EditorsGuide
#QuestPit #YA #H #R #Q
May 7, 2025 at 5:02 AM
May 7th! #questpit
Who’s in!?
Seasons greetings! We’re so happy to announce our 2025 #questpit event list! We hope you all are having a lovely start to your December and we hope to see you here starting in February next year.
May 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
🖤HAUNTED & HEXED🖤

When Simone touches Jadriel it burns
But if he kisses her—Death will come for him

*Unless her murdered cousin's traumatized spirit ends him before the curse can.

🖤 Speculative Feminist Horror with Romance & Revenge🖤

👻A New Urban Legend👻

#YA #H #R #PosterPit #Q
#posterpitq
April 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Let’s swap support #posterpit
April 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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The creeping literary romantic woe of DON’T LET THE FOREST IN
x the rage of BAD WITCH BURNING

This haunted & hexed
Speculative Feminist Horror
is being revised with my @writehive.bsky.social mentor
Rebecca Angus at Howland Literary

2 Big Five Editor requests
& 23 agent requests
#bluepit
January 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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The literary feel & longing angst of DON’T LET THE FOREST IN
X SHE IS A HAUNTING

17 yo Simone is Haunted & Hexed

But she’s desperate to hold on to the bi boy she’s cursed to be the death of & won’t let go of Cousin Nina’s increasingly malevolent spirit.

🖤THE TRUTH OF FEAR🖤
#YA #H #R #Q #P2Ppit
January 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM