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Katie Van Amburg @kvanamburg.bsky.social · 8d
🥀💀🌷

CRIMSON PEAK x BRIDGERTON x HGTV

A flower-seller turned debutante must work with a disgraced celebrity necromancer to restore a crumbling gothic manor full of ghosts + 73 dogs.

🌿 Gothic Cottagecore
💀 Necromancy
🏚️ Forced proximity
💐 Floriography
👻 Haunt the rich
🐶 MANY dogs

#questpit #A #F #Q
A collage of mainly black and green images, featuring skulls, candles, dogs, books, flowers, cottages, forests, and ghosts. There are some graphics on it that show dog paw prints, a teacup, and a moon. The text reads: Houndstooth Hollow: When Artemisia inherits a manor from the mother she never met, she expects newfound wealth and a lovely home in the countryside — not a crumbling gothic manor overrun by 73 dogs, countless dangerous ghosts, and one disgraced celebrity necromancer. In order to pay back her debts and save her new home, she must brave the debutante world to secure a fortune and reluctantly enlist the help of the necromancer, whose dark magic represents everything she’s tried so hard to leave behind. A collage of mostly black and green images, featuring old manor houses, crumbling greenhouses, lots of dogs, and quaint cozy cottages in the sunlight. There are some graphics, such as dog paw prints, a moth, a dog face, and stars. The text reads that this is for fans of gothic cottagecore, afternoon tea & midnight rituals, sentient manor, occult academia magic system, necromancy, forced proximity (haunted house), floriography, haunt the rich, cemetery picnics, and haunting as metaphor. There are also comp titles listed: Belladonna, Half a Soul, The Spellshop, Sorcery of Thorns, The Haunting of Hill House, Crimson Peak, The Addams Family, Tim Burton, India Holton, whimsical macabre, and books where the dogs don’t die.
kvanamburg.bsky.social
CRIMSON PEAK x HGTV

💐 A flower-seller turned debutante who wants a home
💀 A disgraced celebrity necromancer trying to resurrect his reputation
🏚️ A crumbling gothic manor crawling with ghosts
🐶 …and 73 dogs

#questpit #A #F #Q
A collage of mainly black and green images, featuring skulls, candles, dogs, books, flowers, cottages, forests, and ghosts. There are some graphics on it that show dog paw prints, a teacup, and a moon. The text reads: Houndstooth Hollow: When Artemisia inherits a manor from the mother she never met, she expects newfound wealth and a lovely home in the countryside — not a crumbling gothic manor overrun by 73 dogs, countless dangerous ghosts, and one disgraced celebrity necromancer. In order to pay back her debts and save her new home, she must brave the debutante world to secure a fortune and reluctantly enlist the help of the necromancer, whose dark magic represents everything she’s tried so hard to leave behind. A collage of mostly black and green images, featuring old manor houses, crumbling greenhouses, lots of dogs, and quaint cozy cottages in the sunlight. There are some graphics, such as dog paw prints, a moth, a dog face, and stars. The text reads that this is for fans of gothic cottagecore, afternoon tea & midnight rituals, sentient manor, occult academia magic system, necromancy, forced proximity (haunted house), floriography, haunt the rich, cemetery picnics, and haunting as metaphor. There are also comp titles listed: Belladonna, Half a Soul, The Spellshop, Sorcery of Thorns, The Haunting of Hill House, Crimson Peak, The Addams Family, Tim Burton, India Holton, whimsical macabre, and books where the dogs don’t die.
November 6, 2025 at 2:23 AM
kvanamburg.bsky.social
Spooky pastel sapphic Florida you have my whole heart!! 💖👻
snlefebvre.bsky.social Sarah LeFebvre @snlefebvre.bsky.social · 8d
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
kvanamburg.bsky.social
🌿💀✨

A flower-seller inherits a countryside manor — overrun by 73 dogs, countless dangerous ghosts, and one disgraced celebrity necromancer.

To keep her new home, she must restore the house & work with the necromancer to expel the ghosts… before she becomes a haunting, too.

#questpit #A #F #Q
A collage of mainly black and green images, featuring skulls, candles, dogs, books, flowers, cottages, forests, and ghosts. There are some graphics on it that show dog paw prints, a teacup, and a moon. The text reads: Houndstooth Hollow: When Artemisia inherits a manor from the mother she never met, she expects newfound wealth and a lovely home in the countryside — not a crumbling gothic manor overrun by 73 dogs, countless dangerous ghosts, and one disgraced celebrity necromancer. In order to pay back her debts and save her new home, she must brave the debutante world to secure a fortune and reluctantly enlist the help of the necromancer, whose dark magic represents everything she’s tried so hard to leave behind. A collage of mostly black and green images, featuring old manor houses, crumbling greenhouses, lots of dogs, and quaint cozy cottages in the sunlight. There are some graphics, such as dog paw prints, a moth, a dog face, and stars. The text reads that this is for fans of gothic cottagecore, afternoon tea & midnight rituals, sentient manor, occult academia magic system, necromancy, forced proximity (haunted house), floriography, haunt the rich, cemetery picnics, and haunting as metaphor. There are also comp titles listed: Belladonna, Half a Soul, The Spellshop, Sorcery of Thorns, The Haunting of Hill House, Crimson Peak, The Addams Family, Tim Burton, India Holton, whimsical macabre, and books where the dogs don’t die.
November 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Reposted by Katie Van Amburg
rosasuzanne.bsky.social
I'm 11 chapters into this book and it's soooo good🦴👻🦷
kvanamburg.bsky.social Katie Van Amburg @kvanamburg.bsky.social · 8d
🥀💀🌷

CRIMSON PEAK x BRIDGERTON x HGTV

A flower-seller turned debutante must work with a disgraced celebrity necromancer to restore a crumbling gothic manor full of ghosts + 73 dogs.

🌿 Gothic Cottagecore
💀 Necromancy
🏚️ Forced proximity
💐 Floriography
👻 Haunt the rich
🐶 MANY dogs

#questpit #A #F #Q
A collage of mainly black and green images, featuring skulls, candles, dogs, books, flowers, cottages, forests, and ghosts. There are some graphics on it that show dog paw prints, a teacup, and a moon. The text reads: Houndstooth Hollow: When Artemisia inherits a manor from the mother she never met, she expects newfound wealth and a lovely home in the countryside — not a crumbling gothic manor overrun by 73 dogs, countless dangerous ghosts, and one disgraced celebrity necromancer. In order to pay back her debts and save her new home, she must brave the debutante world to secure a fortune and reluctantly enlist the help of the necromancer, whose dark magic represents everything she’s tried so hard to leave behind. A collage of mostly black and green images, featuring old manor houses, crumbling greenhouses, lots of dogs, and quaint cozy cottages in the sunlight. There are some graphics, such as dog paw prints, a moth, a dog face, and stars. The text reads that this is for fans of gothic cottagecore, afternoon tea & midnight rituals, sentient manor, occult academia magic system, necromancy, forced proximity (haunted house), floriography, haunt the rich, cemetery picnics, and haunting as metaphor. There are also comp titles listed: Belladonna, Half a Soul, The Spellshop, Sorcery of Thorns, The Haunting of Hill House, Crimson Peak, The Addams Family, Tim Burton, India Holton, whimsical macabre, and books where the dogs don’t die.
November 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
kvanamburg.bsky.social
For fans of whimsy… and nightmares 🌿✨👀
rosasuzanne.bsky.social Rosa Suzanne @rosasuzanne.bsky.social · 8d
When Jude returns to her childhood home after a decade away and accidentally unleashes a monster, her visit turns into a living nightmare—literally. She must rally her old best friends to save the town and everyone in it.

🌿Seaside cottagecore
👻Reality-bending monster
✨Whimsical magic

#QuestPit #A
A collage of images displaying the vibe of what this book pitch is about. Some of the images depict seaside towns, dogs swimming, a couple dancing on the sea shore, foggy cliffs and lots of cozy looking cottages. A collage of images displaying the vibe of what this book pitch is about. Some of the images depict cozy looking gardens with cottage houses made of brick stones near the seaside. Others depict young women walking through grass fields. There are flowers and and stone paths among other beautiful scenery. Text reads: When Jude returns to her small seaside hometown after a decade away, she thinks the worst things she'll face are the family and friends she left behind. But when she accidentally sets loose a reality-twisting monster that threatens the whole town through nightmares, she must rally her former best friends and work together to stop the monster - before their town, and everyone in it, gets erased from existence. 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
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Reposted by Katie Van Amburg
lawilding.bsky.social
EMILY WILDE'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FAERIES X DIVINE RIVALS

📖 Cozy, light academia
🌿 Soft FMC studying nature-based magic
🌸 Hidden garden steeped in secrets
🏛️ Academic rivals-to-lovers
💌 Slow-burn romance
🍃 Legacy, ambition, and belonging

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F #RF
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
kvanamburg.bsky.social
🥀💀🌷

CRIMSON PEAK x BRIDGERTON x HGTV

A flower-seller turned debutante must work with a disgraced celebrity necromancer to restore a crumbling gothic manor full of ghosts + 73 dogs.

🌿 Gothic Cottagecore
💀 Necromancy
🏚️ Forced proximity
💐 Floriography
👻 Haunt the rich
🐶 MANY dogs

#questpit #A #F #Q
A collage of mainly black and green images, featuring skulls, candles, dogs, books, flowers, cottages, forests, and ghosts. There are some graphics on it that show dog paw prints, a teacup, and a moon. The text reads: Houndstooth Hollow: When Artemisia inherits a manor from the mother she never met, she expects newfound wealth and a lovely home in the countryside — not a crumbling gothic manor overrun by 73 dogs, countless dangerous ghosts, and one disgraced celebrity necromancer. In order to pay back her debts and save her new home, she must brave the debutante world to secure a fortune and reluctantly enlist the help of the necromancer, whose dark magic represents everything she’s tried so hard to leave behind. A collage of mostly black and green images, featuring old manor houses, crumbling greenhouses, lots of dogs, and quaint cozy cottages in the sunlight. There are some graphics, such as dog paw prints, a moth, a dog face, and stars. The text reads that this is for fans of gothic cottagecore, afternoon tea & midnight rituals, sentient manor, occult academia magic system, necromancy, forced proximity (haunted house), floriography, haunt the rich, cemetery picnics, and haunting as metaphor. There are also comp titles listed: Belladonna, Half a Soul, The Spellshop, Sorcery of Thorns, The Haunting of Hill House, Crimson Peak, The Addams Family, Tim Burton, India Holton, whimsical macabre, and books where the dogs don’t die.
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
kvanamburg.bsky.social
I got to read the first chapters of this delightful pastel paranormal book and let me tell you, they are a TREAT 🥹💖
snlefebvre.bsky.social Sarah LeFebvre @snlefebvre.bsky.social · 8d
A fangirl has to help her fave author finish her final manuscript post-mortem while a ghost from its pages threatens their theater.

📝Ghostwriter to a ghost
💗Pastel paranormal
👻Vengeful spirit
🎭Haunted theater
🖤Séance-gone-awry
🌴Florida summer vibes (but spooky)
💕One bed

#questpit #YA #PR #LGBT #Q
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
kvanamburg.bsky.social
I love this starry, music-filled graphic novel so much!! 🥹💜🌟
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Reposted by Katie Van Amburg
snlefebvre.bsky.social
Proud member of the disgraced celebrity necromancer’s fan club 🖤
kvanamburg.bsky.social Katie Van Amburg @kvanamburg.bsky.social · 8d
CRIMSON PEAK x BRIDGERTON x HGTV

💐 a flower-seller turned debutante who just wants a home
💀 a disgraced celebrity necromancer trying to revive his reputation
🏚️ a crumbling gothic manor crawling with ghosts
🐶 73 dogs

#questpit #A #F #Q
November 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Reposted by Katie Van Amburg
rosasuzanne.bsky.social
Never thought I’d love a disgraced celebrity necromancer this much but guyss this book is so so good!!
kvanamburg.bsky.social Katie Van Amburg @kvanamburg.bsky.social · 8d
CRIMSON PEAK x BRIDGERTON x HGTV

💐 a flower-seller turned debutante who just wants a home
💀 a disgraced celebrity necromancer trying to revive his reputation
🏚️ a crumbling gothic manor crawling with ghosts
🐶 73 dogs

#questpit #A #F #Q
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Reposted by Katie Van Amburg
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
Reposted by Katie Van Amburg
dhoedits.bsky.social
IF I HAVE TO BE HAUNTED X BELLADONNA

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

#QuestPit #YA #Q #PF #agentsguide
November 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Reposted by Katie Van Amburg
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
kvanamburg.bsky.social
Everyone go give @rosasuzanne.bsky.social some extra love for doing #questpit while literally still in the hospital after emergency surgery (!!) 🥺 💜
rosasuzanne.bsky.social Rosa Suzanne @rosasuzanne.bsky.social · 8d
I’m in the hospital after emergency surgery this morning but luckily I have the loveliest, most amazing writer friends who are helping me post for #questpit

Love you @juliejubz.com @kvanamburg.bsky.social @snlefebvre.bsky.social 💕💕
November 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Reposted by Katie Van Amburg
snlefebvre.bsky.social
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 w/ the author’s living sister to stop a vengeful spirit and help a ghost finish her final manuscript.

#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 heart sunglasses, pink hair, ripped jeans, 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. Text in pink, cursive script reads: Ghost Writer.
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Reposted by Katie Van Amburg
rosasuzanne.bsky.social
Starling House x Spells for Forgetting

When Jude reluctantly returns to her hometown after over a decade away and accidentally sets loose a reality-twisting monster, she must rally her childhood friend group 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 cozy looking gardens with cottage houses made of brick stones near the seaside. Others depict young women walking through grass fields. There are flowers and and stone paths among other beautiful scenery. Text reads: When Jude returns to her small seaside hometown after a decade away, she thinks the worst things she'll face are the family and friends she left behind. But when she accidentally sets loose a reality-twisting monster that threatens the whole town through nightmares, she must rally her former best friends and work together to stop the monster - before their town, and everyone in it, gets erased from existence. A second 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
November 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
kvanamburg.bsky.social
CRIMSON PEAK x BRIDGERTON x HGTV

💐 a flower-seller turned debutante who just wants a home
💀 a disgraced celebrity necromancer trying to revive his reputation
🏚️ a crumbling gothic manor crawling with ghosts
🐶 73 dogs

#questpit #A #F #Q
November 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
kvanamburg.bsky.social
🥹🥹🥹
snlefebvre.bsky.social Sarah LeFebvre @snlefebvre.bsky.social · 9d
This was already a “born to read, forced to work” kind of week and that was BEFORE @kvanamburg.bsky.social sent me the second half of her amazing (and spooky) book to read 😭
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Reposted by Katie Van Amburg
snlefebvre.bsky.social
After she accidentally traps the spirit of her favorite paranormal author through a séance-gone-awry, Sadie has to work w/ the author’s sister to finish the final manuscript and stop a vengeful ghost straight out of the story before someone else winds up dead.

#GhostPit #YA #PN #LGBT #Q 👻
A collage of pastel beach sunsets and coral pink buildings, pastel pink-haired young women, palm trees, pink roller skates, ripped jeans, red theatre seats and a glowing red theatre sign, a black and white image of a woman in 1920s attire, hands typing on laptops, a tan longboard, and a black PlayStation controller.
October 31, 2025 at 3:16 AM
kvanamburg.bsky.social
BELLADONNA X HALF A SOUL

💐 a flower-seller turned debutante who just wants a home
💀 a disgraced celebrity necromancer trying to revive his reputation
🏚️ a gothic manor crawling with ghosts
🐶 73 dogs

#GhostPit #A #NA #G #F #Q 👻
October 31, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Reposted by Katie Van Amburg
snlefebvre.bsky.social
A fangirl has to help her fave author finish her final manuscript post-mortem while a ghost from its pages threatens their theater.

📝Ghostwriter to a ghost
💗Pastel paranormal
👻Vengeful spirit
🎭Haunted theater
🖤Séance-gone-awry
🌴Florida summer vibes (but spooky)
💕One bed

#GhostPit #YA #PN #LGBT #Q
October 31, 2025 at 1:20 AM