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Phi at the Long Way Down book series
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Phi (Sophie, she/her, 🇲🇽🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦) & Moma (Rose, she/they, 🇨🇦) are writing a book series! Phi runs this account :)

💀 Books about death, deities, love, & life
👻 Our hashtag: #LWDB
☠ Link list here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/123008806
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Phi at the Long Way Down book series @longwaydownbook.bsky.social · 6d
HOZIER x COCO x GOBLIN x TRESE x CONSTANTINE(2005)

👻Catch that killer!
🐈‍⬛International cast
❤️‍🔥Slow burn poly rep
✨Grumpy x Sunshine
🖤 Love across lifetimes
💀 Reincarnated Death Gods
💜 Healing grief & trauma through found family
🕯️Samhain, Día de Muertos, Fèt Gede, Undas

#QuestPit #W #A #S #F #PR
There is a grid of nine square photos with a dark blue background around them. All the photos are darkened and desaturated. In the top left photo, Tylor, a pale Northern Irish man with long, dark curly hair and wearing a black suit, is squatting close to the ground beside a tree trunk with his hands clasped one over the other. The top middle photo is a series of silhouettes of gravestones, the faint outline of a mountain in the background. The top right is a paved bridge that extends into fog, with metal railings on either side and branches along the top edge of the image. The centre left photo is a blurred, dark image of lines on a road and a streak of a headlamp above. The centre middle is a starry night sky surrounded by black silhouettes of tree tops. Centre right is a lighter photo of a roadway and field beyond, with a white Mini driving on it. The bottom left photo is of several leafless young trees beside a lake. The bottom middle photo is a low-angle shot of a cobblestone wall and memorial obelisk atop it. In the bottom right image, Naveena, a British-Indian woman with brown skin and long dark hair, moves along a hedge in a black leather jacket with a wary expression on her face. There is text overlayed all the photos. It says: "The Pitch. Tylor & Naveena are keeping secrets: he can talk to the dead & she is Death herself. No mortal can do what they do. The day they meet, they discover they've been looking for each other. Can they work together to save a missing girl, & themselves, before it's too late?"
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Today I accidentally turned Moma's brain into mush by reading medical journal articles out loud, trying to figure out what kind of scar Naveena had from her death. The main takeaway was that she has a hypertrophic scar. I may put this all into a research post later... #LWDB #writing #researching
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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whoops we wrote 7k in 2 days

woohoo!
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Things we've changed in Ch1-2 from draft 2 to draft 3:

- start w/ Naveena's POV instead of Tylor's
- start just after she reaps a soul at the Royal Infirmary, instead of at the Uni of Edinburgh
- she senses Tylor using his powers and seeks him out rather than him running into her on accident

#LWDB
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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No, we write based on scene rather than word count. We lock into a particular mindset and emotion and see it through organically without worrying about length. I know we could just continue, but then you need more emotional gas in the tank and there's no guarantee we'll have it! #PretendPanel
karamoonauthor.com Kara Moon (the artist formerly known as Hiria Dunning) @karamoonauthor.com · 4d
Greetings, #pretendpanel! One week into writeathon month, I'm wondering how you feel about this notorious topic...

November 7th: X number of words per day - are you a fan of this approach or not?

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
#pretendpanel a daily prompt tag hosted by @hiriadunning.bsky.social November 7th: X number of words per day - are you a fan of this approach or not? Please support your fellow #pretentpanel posters with replies, likes and reposts New #pretendpanel questions every Friday and Saturday. Hop in any time!
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Writer face reveal!!

I'm Phi, & I write as Naveena, one of our MCs. Moma writes as Tylor, our other MC. Thanks to friends & the support of our Patrons, we've been able to get photos with our respective MCs, so here is a nice introduction to the 4 of us! #LWDB #WriterSky

📸: David R, Kristi Boulton
Two people are standing in front of a black iron fence; a bright water fountain surrounded by lawn is behind the fence. On the left is Naveena, who has dark hair, brown skin, and is in the midst of saying something that's making her laugh. She is wearing a thick black choker, a hot pink motocycle jacket, a dark grey-purple shirt, and black leggings. Sophie is on the right. She is shorter than Naveena, with pale skin and long brown hair, and is smiling at what Naveena's saying. She is wearing a black motorcycle jacket, a thin choker, a white top with Mexican embroidery, a brown belt, and dark jeans. Two people are standing outside in a wooded path. On the left is Tylor, a pale thin tall man with dark, curly hair, a trim short beard, a black jacket, a white shirt, and black pants and shoes. Beside him stands Moma, who is shorter than him, the top of their head reaching Tylor's nose. They have red curly hair and a rounder frame and are wearing a long black jacket, a purple sweater, a long necklace, light wash jeans, and orange converse. They're also wearing a pair of orange sunglasses. Both Tylor and Moma have their hands near their jacket pockets and are looking directly at the camera.
February 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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ADDIE LARUE x YOU'VE REACHED SAM

On the verge of death, Safa makes a desperate bargain with a mysterious jinn. Now she has 3 obscure clues, 0 memories and 1 month to win back her life.

🇵🇰-rep & folklore
💘allies to lovers
🔍amnesia with a twist
⏳ticking clock

#questpit #ya #f
November 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Did you miss our latest newsletter? Never fear, the link is here ~ Free and Allhallowtide themed!

#LWDB #newsletter

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This is Hallowe'en~ 👻💀
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November 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Reminder!!

Bluesky has a pronoun labeler you should really use!

Only those who subscribe to this will see it so you should do that. Don't worry, that's all it does.
Instructions are in the bio/first post.
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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⋆⁺₊❅.
ADESTE FIDELES
⋆⁺₊❅.

A couple in Maryland unknowingly invite the Devil to dine with them on Christmas Eve ❄️

- scottish folklore of Black Donald
- holiday horror novella
- doomed lovers
- religious shame, love over sin

#questpit #Q #A #H #HF #R
A picture of a writing pitch in the form of Netflix UI with the title, the genres Horror and Historical Fiction, a description, and similar recommendations in the form of comparables: The Devil and Tom Walker, A History of Fear, Knock, Knock Open Wide; and The Green Knight.
November 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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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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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 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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The Poor Lost Souls ✨💙 had a lot of fun with this one!
#dnd #dndoc #originalcharacter #oc #illustration
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 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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duaceren.bsky.social
Spirited Away x Shutter Island

Reality and fantasy blur when an anonymous invitation sends a burnt-out chocolatier spiraling to hunt down a serial killer she thought she made up as a child.

🥀Found family
🥀Secrets
🥀Ghosts

🪻Mental health rep
🪻Disability rep
🪻LGBTQIA+

#QuestPit #W #A #F #T #PR
“Life tried so hard to cling to this place that all it did was make death sink in deeper.” “You can bury your past but don’t be surprised when it comes back to haunt you.” “Everyone lived in their own world, even when they were right next to each other.” Collage of photos: girls in dresses sitting in the grass, boat in blue waters, curtains at dusk glowing orange, melted chocolate poured over stacks of chocolate chunks, field of blue flowers with sun shining, girl in dress spinning in circles on grassy hill, messy pile of old photos, woman and child holding hands, rose bush, sunlight through tree leaves, a woman submerged in dark water reaching out, a woman in a white dress running away from something while barefoot in grass, restaurant with blue chairs by the sea at sunset, graves in the middle of a dark forest, girl in dark water with a white dress and arm over her chest and white roses over her torso, a man peering through the woods with a flashlight at night, a man and a woman dancing under a starry night, field of blue flowers in a forest, hands reaching up from water through lily pads, dragonfly wing close up, shadows of two friends back-to-back making finger guns
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Excitedly presenting an #agentguide for HEART OF THE BAYOU, my sapphic horror-romance—now in an inbox near you!!

🫀Deep Southern cryptids
🫀sapphic pining
🫀coming of rage
🫀monsters as a metaphor for queerness & disability
🫀 ✨Big 5✨ editor interest x2

#questpit #YA #Q #H #R #LGBT
An agent’s guide to: HEART OF THE BAYOU A YA Horror-Romance The pitch: The deadly legends that prowl the bayou eat more than just souls— and one wants Elle's heart for her own ... When a paranormal migration brings a slew of deadly soul-eating cryptids to the quiet swamps of Louisiana, subsequently cornering the paranormal clinic 17-year-old Elle works at—she must find out why the bloodthirsty monsters are migrating before BOLT, a paranormal branch of the FBI, threatens to shut down the clinic and arrest its supernatural patients. But when she discovers her crush is hiding some monsters of her own, the kind of cryptid that might just take down the clinic and Elle's heart—she'll have to decide if she's ready to take the girl's advice and finally risk letting her own inner monsters out of the closet ... Comps: They Bloom at Night, I Feed Her to the Beast, A Feast for the Eyes, This Ravenous Fate, Hear Her Howl, The Coven Tendency Snippet from HEART OF THE BAYOU: I'd heard of the brutality of how these cryptids killed. How the survivors were lucky if you managed to escape with only an arm lost. How they enjoyed ripping people from flesh to tendons and finally bone, before they dove for the final kill and snapped their prey's neck, the tell-tale halo of blood flowering above their victims' heads I only hoped there was something I could salvage once the beast finished. The man's shrieks didn't cease until the monster's eyes glowed brighter, rubies sparkling in the center of a dangerous black mass. His body stilled, transfixed in terror. A silent scream began to pry his lips apart as if drawn by an invisible force. I winced, the sounds of bones clicking, dislocating, and popping as the man's eyes rolled to the back of his head. A fleshy lump burst through his shirt, pulsating and twisting like worms had taken ahold of his skin. Tropes & Vibes: “Only one bed” Abandoned houses & creepy dockyards Sociopolitical commentary Neurodivergent, queer & anxiety rep Lesbian MC’s Cryptids & legends from the Deep South Small town horror The monster wins in the end . . . Sassy x Stabby FMC’s Central moodboard: Swamp pictures, an orange moon, flannels, heart-shaped carabiners, a “don’t go into the woods” sign, girls kissing, a religious sign, a truck in a field
November 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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IMMORTAL x A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS
A reincarnated immortal and an emotionally damaged cowherd must escape the heavenly forces intent on tearing them apart.

✨A love destined to fail
✨A jealous Celestial Empress
✨An underworld filled with both torture and hope

#questpit #AG #RF
Photo of a man and woman in hanfu holding a red string. A FATE WOVEN IN STARLIGHT. Quote: “I meant it when I said I feel a connection between us, Shizhi. Like we’re meant to be together, but the feeling has an edge of uncertainty. I can’t explain it.”
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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authort-lee.bsky.social
time slip fantasy x bildungsroman

🕯️ wishes 1 will come to regret
📚 the weight of family names
⚔️ self-destructive MC
🕰️ choices not taken
☠️ lingering ghosts
👄 society vs desire
🥀 self-fulfilling prophecy
🙏🏼 mythololzation of death
🔭 fruitless search for meaning
💧 legacy of violence & neglect
#QuestPit
authort-lee.bsky.social Tien Lee (she/her) @authort-lee.bsky.social · 6d
MARTYR! x THE NAMES but isekai

Max sees no future for himself until death reshapes him into a noble in an alternate ancient East Asia. As Yoon, he has it all: status, affection, & a prediction that his love is lethal. Is life worth living if it comes at others’ suffering?
#QuestPit #Q #A #LF #HF #F
This is a flowery graphic with post-reincarnation Yoon on the left and pre-reincarnation Max on the right, but turned at an angle with their character artworks facing each other. Above fancy robe-wearing Yoon there are lines that read: In the stillness of death, he immortalized her as his ever-loving, ever-living flower. It would be an eternity of affection. Above florist-uniformed Max are the lines: It wouldn't be so bad if this were the end, he thought... In their family, inconvenient things were silently buried. Especially death.
November 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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GRIM PORTENTS

HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE X CONSTANTINE

A man is murdered by a hell-beast on his wedding day. Now, with the help of the reaper who collected his soul, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell if he wants to return to the life he was robbed of.

#P #F #H #PR #Hu #OWN #questpit
Grim Portents cover featuring a skeleton hand holding a feather and emerging from an open book. The title is on a burning banner that envelops the feather and a large beast looms over it all. At the top, the tagline reads: Welcome to the first day of the end of your life… Black and white sketch of characters Bill and Sonny. Bill is a dark featured man in a suit and kind of a Mark Ruffalo vibe. Sonny is a rotting corpse man with a cardigan. "I HAD ALWAYS TOLD MYSELF IT WAS A FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION, THE MIND PLAYING TRICKS. IT WAS JUST A SHADOW. BUT NOW THE MONSTER HAD BEEN GIVEN A NAME, AN IDENTITY. IT WAS REAL." Bill Baker wants nothing more than to marry the woman he loves, but when his wedding is interrupted by a rampaging hell-beast, his life is thrown into disarray. Desperate for a second chance, he will do anything to set his future back on track. Now, with the help of a soul-collecting reaper named Sonny, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell, in order to earn back the life that was stolen from him and prevent the oncoming end of days. Faced with the choice between what is right and what is easy, Bill may have to sacrifice all he holds dear for one last shot at life. Ad for Grim Portents, featuring a print copy of the book and an ebook on an iPhone. A QR code that takes you to my website and the words “Scan to learn more about debut paranormal fantasy novel Grim Portents” below it. Under that, it says “Available online anywhere books are sold!” And above it all is the tagline “Welcome to the first day of the end of your life”
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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🌲Spooky mountainside town
📷 missing hikers
🌲 aloof and mysterious bartender with plenty of secrets to hide
📷 suspicious locals
🌲#ownvoice Indigenous, Queer, and Autistic rep

#Questpit #A #AG #PR #H #W
Water dripping off leaf, old motel sign, mountainside river, girl in leather jacket, wild howling, girl on computer, hand and wild print, foggy forest, missing posters, full moon
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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flcr24.bsky.social
#A SIX OF CROWS W GHOSTS

🌩️🌞Grumpy-sunshine cousins
❤️‍🔥Slowest of burns
☠️Serial Killer
🤫Heist
🥰Found family

Jack’s sworn to protect the dead. When a book on harvesting magic from ghosts falls into the wrong hands, he'll stop at nothing to get it back.

#QuestPit #Q #F
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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What We Do In the Shadows, but for demonic hauntings. A hapless demon navigates the redtape of the haunting process as laid out by the Afterlife, Underworld, and Karmatic Compliance Authority, who even Hell answers to, all as folk creatures undermine his authority at every turn #questpit #Q #A #S #H
November 6, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH x THE SECOND DEATH OF LOCKE

When an outcast woman is cursed with chaos magic, she’s forced to join a treasonous noble and his war rebellion–only to discover that the condemning secret she’s been keeping is the key to stopping the war for good.

#questpit #RF #A #E
November 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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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
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For the #questpit night 🦉s!

A disabled media archivist discovers a big tech company is stealing memories from the poor, & has to unravel what they took from him as well. In another timeline, his hồ ly tinh-shaped robot assistant grows more sentient and investigates a murder.

#QuestPit #W #A #SF #S
Mood board for Snaggleteeth framed with retro rainbow: top row - Hoi An lanterns (via unsplash) / person going to abandoned radio tower (via unsplash) / colourful rainbow wires (via unsplash) / middle row - tv displaying static in a red room (via unsplash) / ho ly tinh fox spirit statue in a vietnamese temple (via unsplash) / pink retro computer control room (from the show Maniac on netflix) / a rainbow retro diagram showing a music chart (vintage book cover by unknown artist) / pink retro archival boxes (via unsplash) / small asian child in a pink hoodie holding hands with a robot (via unsplash)
November 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM