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Marat is writing about gay vampires
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The deceased with the least 💀
Writer of books 📚 Agent of chaos
Afro-Indigenous 💀 Trans 💀 Autistic 💀
he/him

AWAKEN, MY LOVE 🩸Pre-Order now. Bleed Later🩸

Current WIPs:
Pie-Eye, a surreal novelette *editing*

https://maratearendel.carrd.co/
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Marat is writing about gay vampires @maratearendel.bsky.social · Jan 18
Cover reveal for my queer gothic vampire novel Awaken, My Love.

He feels nothing. The vampire feels everything. The castle wants the rest.

Preorders are live.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G6V8S6YQ

#coverreveal #transwriter #vampires
On a red and black background at the top it says cover reveal. The book cover for Awaken, My Love, written by Marat Earendel is underneath at the center. The illustrated cover shows a brown vampire with red eyes and shoulder length wavy black hair wearing antique black and white clothing while looking toward the viewer. He is holding a man in his hands. The man is pale with long beige hair wearing white and cream colored clothing. He is in profile, looking up and gripping the vampires shirt. There are split open pomegranates threaded through the burgundy title of the novel. In the background is a broken gothic window and at the bottom are chains. The cover is in shades of reds, browns, mauves and blacks. A red and black background with text that reads: He feels nothing. The vampire feels everything. The castle wants the rest. Astaire Bloom, an unfeeling man devoid of hope, takes a job in a remote castle under a mysterious employer. As sinister events unfold around him, he starts to feel things he thought himself incapable of. And the castle is hungry for it. To uncover the secrets buried within, he must endure more than he ever imagined. A black and red background with large read letters that say Awaken, My Love. Below it says: March 2026. Pre-order now. Bleed later.
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tdcloud.bsky.social
Bonus project for #sludgepit since I'm toying with this short story as well.

🍄 eroguro
🍄 vore
🍄 visceral pantheon
🍄 divine incest
🍄 the kind of cannibalism Vessel is actually singing about in all those Sleep Token songs

#wip #dr #h
A muted moodboard with graphics of mushrooms, pomegranates, and teeth. Text: GODFLESH; a morbid pantheon | cannibalism | eroguro | hunger x decay. “Hunger is just want that’s grown teeth,” came the next crooning lilt, the next wave of fetid, romantic waft. The rot clung to Hunger’s lips and Decay could do nothing but stare. “Should I show you, sweet Cousin? Should I venerate you properly for a change?”
February 17, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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ambooneauthor.bsky.social
Heard there was a #sludgepit happening, so I'm throwing my hat in the ring.

A vampire noble finds themselves swept into a conspiracy after being gifted a low-blood criminal as a so-called bodyguard.

#A #P #OV #POC #TR #LGBT #PNR #D

Can be read on KU here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F2SJZ1B4
A trope image for the book Bound by Blood (Bound Duet Book One) by A.M. Boone. The cover has a half-Native-American man with long black hair holding an African-American nonbinary person with short curly hair by the waist. There's roses in front of them, and a gate, moon, and cityscape in the back. The tropes are: - enemies to lovers - trans rep - vampire politics - magical bonding - unhinged4unhinged - morally gray MC x morally black LI - touch them and die - poc rep - high spice
February 17, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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arndtezra.bsky.social
My contribution to #sludgepit is my Gothic horrormance with people-eating necromancers, dubiously consented to servitude, and a feral black cat main character who would fight anything and anyone. #HR #DR #WIP
A dimmed photo of juicy-looking pomegranate seeds and the following text: The lich had the same warm aura, but instead of the welcoming heat of a radiant springtime sun after the cold winter, it was the aura of a fading twilight sun. Still trying to warm the world, but it left a bitter sensation upon the skin. “Come.” The lich’s voice was soft as his crimson-stained fingers curled around the curved handle of his cane, which Dobroslav numbly held onto. “You said you’d follow me into the depths of hell?” The lich’s smile was a warm contrast to his corpse-cold grasp on Dobroslav’s hand. “Let’s go deeper in, then.” Cannibal Candy by Ezra Arndt.
February 17, 2026 at 6:19 PM
maratearendel.bsky.social
And I chose very #spudgepit specific tags of course.

Because I know what my fellow degenarates are interested in.
maratearendel.bsky.social Marat is writing about gay vampires @maratearendel.bsky.social · 7h
🩸 Hurt, and bleed, and fuck, and fear. Fear it all. Feel it all.🩸

Frankenstein x Interview with the Vampire

March 2026.
Pre-orders open.

#sludgepit #p #h #dr #r

www.amazon.com/dp/B0G6V8S6YQ
a trope map showing the cover of Awaken, My Love by Marat Earendel. The tropes are: erotic horror romance, gay wrongs, angst &yearning, so so much blood, morally gray everything, aesthetic gore, breathing walls, sex first emotions later, healing trauma through sex, lust and kind and base urges. The illustrated cover shows a brown vampire with red eyes and shoulder-length wavy black hair wearing antique black and white clothing while looking toward the viewer. He is holding a man in his hands. The man is pale with long beige hair, wearing white and cream colored clothing. He is in profile, looking up and gripping the vampire's shirt. There are split open pomegranates threaded through the burgundy title of the novel. In the background is a broken gothic window, and at the bottom are chains. The cover is in shades of reds, browns, mauves, and blacks. On a red and black background, it says: Astaire Bloom, an unfeeling man devoid of hope, takes a job in a remote castle under a mysterious employer. As sinister events unfold around him, he starts to feel things he thought himself incapable of. And the castle is hungry for it. To uncover the secrets buried within, he must endure more than he ever imagined.
February 17, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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aiden-e-messer.bsky.social
It's #sludgepit time!
#p #hr

Seth has some debatable k!nks and a general lack of self preservation instinct. That's probably why his life became a gore and lust filled descent into hell.
godless.com/products/deb... books2read.com/DebasingSeth aiden-e-messer.itch.io/debasing-seth
February 17, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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beastcutter.bsky.social
Paris, 192X. An English man without a face is hired by a strange boy to examine a series of defaced portraits. His investigation leads him into a world of art, opium, sex, and the undead.

Read the 1st 6 chapters of LAZARUS-a horror noir- here
beastcutter.itch.io/lazarus-teaser

#SLUDGEPIT #HT #wip
A black and white photograph of the hellmouth entrance of cabaret l’enfer. The novel title is Lazarus, written by Lukan Garrow The hallway opened like a throat. From the main room, hands appeared to take my coat, my hat. I let them, soothed by the cushioning darkness, given a velvet quality by the haze of smoke. From within this shroud came points of soft light; the low, controlled glow of an opium lamp. They scattered the murky room like dying stars. Amongst them, amongst the pillows and furs, lay piles of unmoving contorted flesh. Bodies on bodies. Limp, cast across one another careless. A mass grave. Their breath was soft, almost invisible, their half-closed eyes sucked into a drowning pool of dreaming. Atop a bunk lay a woman in repose, as if painted, her face turned from me, her hand hanging limp over the edge. This was a house of the dead. Its denizens never-living. All those years I had lived beneath the soil, in those cut, festering wells of misery and fear. It was here alone I could feel the soft embrace of the grave.
October 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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tdcloud.bsky.social
Happy #sludgepit to those who celebrate. Currently working on PHILAMAITOS, book 3 in the #dverse, a vtm inspired dark vampire universe.

💀 1933 Prohibition Chicago
💀 Vampire Fightclubs
💀 Faithlessness vs Desperation
💀 Obsession over Romance
💀 Vampire Politics
💀 Post WW1 Trauma

#wip #t #dr(?)
A teal moodboard with the text: Philamaitos #sludgepit. Images of a darkly lit speakeasy, male hands holding a rosary, a spilled glass of wine, a male hand binding itself for boxing, a dark city street, and hands with brass knuckles clasped in bloody prayer. Text: “Me or them, Sammy. Who’s the lesser evil?” and “Something tells me it wouldn’t matter what I’d rather,” Sammy said, voice lemon-tart. “Something tells me you’ve come this way before.” Philamaitos: #sludgepit The Premise: Sammy, the owner and operator of an underground speakeasy, is the illegitimate son of a prominent, AWOL Chicago mobster. The boss of the same family has died and he finds himself now embroiled in a power vacuum that threatens to destabilize the entire city. To make matters worse, he’s next in line to the Luminary eldership. Relying on James, a rogue Triarii who is more loyal to the task of maintaining his claim on his blood doll Sammy than his own organization, Sammy must keep his head above the subterfuge as the second-in-line to the eldership sets him in his sights and refuses to ignore the one obstacle in his path to the top. The Dynamic: Sammy wound his fingers around the dog tags and used them like a leash to close the meager distance between them. He hovered his lips a scant inch from James’ jaw. “There’s something to be said for your… initiative, James.” “Now I know that ain't a compliment.” “You sure about that?" James grimaced even as he allowed himself to be pulled closer, Sammy’s thigh slotting into place like a batter sliding home. “Coming from you? Almost definitely.”
February 17, 2026 at 2:23 PM
maratearendel.bsky.social
Happy #sludgepit everyone!
Lat time I found so many interesting stories. Excited to see what everyone is putching.
February 17, 2026 at 3:08 PM
maratearendel.bsky.social
🩸 Hurt, and bleed, and fuck, and fear. Fear it all. Feel it all.🩸

Frankenstein x Interview with the Vampire

March 2026.
Pre-orders open.

#sludgepit #p #h #dr #r

www.amazon.com/dp/B0G6V8S6YQ
a trope map showing the cover of Awaken, My Love by Marat Earendel. The tropes are: erotic horror romance, gay wrongs, angst &yearning, so so much blood, morally gray everything, aesthetic gore, breathing walls, sex first emotions later, healing trauma through sex, lust and kind and base urges. The illustrated cover shows a brown vampire with red eyes and shoulder-length wavy black hair wearing antique black and white clothing while looking toward the viewer. He is holding a man in his hands. The man is pale with long beige hair, wearing white and cream colored clothing. He is in profile, looking up and gripping the vampire's shirt. There are split open pomegranates threaded through the burgundy title of the novel. In the background is a broken gothic window, and at the bottom are chains. The cover is in shades of reds, browns, mauves, and blacks. On a red and black background, it says: Astaire Bloom, an unfeeling man devoid of hope, takes a job in a remote castle under a mysterious employer. As sinister events unfold around him, he starts to feel things he thought himself incapable of. And the castle is hungry for it. To uncover the secrets buried within, he must endure more than he ever imagined.
February 17, 2026 at 3:07 PM
maratearendel.bsky.social
Had group therapy this morning and my body just up and decided it does not want to leave the bed and my chronic ilnesses are ilnessing hard.
Just when I feel like I'm doing better, my body makes sure I remember that I'm not abled bodied.
Been stuck in bed all day too sick to work.
Rest day it is
February 16, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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morgandante.bsky.social
Providence Girls and The Saint of Heartbreak are free on Kindle today! 👀
February 15, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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zprospero.bsky.social
My Dracula prequel novella, "Life Before Blood", is still free on Itch.IO! For anyone that's interested.

zekecaliban.itch.io/life-before-...

#BookSky #MMRomance #DarkRomance
February 15, 2026 at 3:48 PM
maratearendel.bsky.social
"The bitterness of their terror coats my tongue."

I adore writing from an ancient vampires POV!
So so much delicious angst and torment.

#wipsnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
I have known his kind for too long to mistake his nature. Humans are always preoccupied, whether with trivial anxieties, idle preparations, or demands of the flesh. Yet never in all my years have I encountered one whose mind did not recoil from me in terror. Even before intellect forms thought, their instinct senses what I am, knows to fear me. The bitterness of their terror coats my tongue.
February 15, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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anakidd.bsky.social
bringing a valentine monster pitch for #Cupit ! Gore Fluff is a good way to describe them

📝 short story [4k]
🦇 big bat monsters [M/M presenting intersex couple]
❤️‍🔥 soulmates
🥚 breeding
🦷 transformation
🩸 blood
🍆 rough sex

FREE to read: anakidd.itch.io/awakening-hu...

#ER #MnR #HOR
I... I do feel different too, kind of... I don’t know. This is new.” Minh nuzzled Santi’s palm against his own cheek, as if trying to soothe his hot skin. The taste of the unknown substance was adding to his arousal, making his dick tingle. “It’s new, indeed.” Santi cupped his cheeks with both hands, breathing a warm whisper against his lips. “So... Let’s learn together. As we always do.” After all, when you have forever, there is no need to skip foreplay. Once Minh’s head started to drop, Santi gently cradled it and started disengaging from his neck. His fangs slid out smoothly from his flesh, not a single drop of blood smearing his white teeth or the perfect bite marks. Still, Santi kissed and licked all over it, satisfied to see it disappearing in a blink. “All good…?” Santi whispered, patting Minh’s shoulder while keeping him nested in his arms.
February 14, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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elissadickey.bsky.social
Rosie's trip to Ireland is to die for. To survive, she needs to:

❤️ Solve a murder
❤️ Try not to fall for a handsome stranger.
❤️ Escape the vengeful ghost stalking her across the Irish countryside.

THE HAUNTING OF MADDY CLARE + THE GUEST LIST

#Cupit #A #Q #HOR #GR
A vengeful ghost. A 20 year old murder. A mysterious stranger. Finding the truth might cost her life. Now querying.
February 14, 2026 at 5:55 PM
maratearendel.bsky.social
I'm very excited to share @jakevanguard.bsky.social cover for Troubled Bodies!
Cover by Sarah Laudenbach.
2nd of June 2026

Frankenstein x Hannibal
Un-bury your gays
Rats are friends 🐀
Cannibalism as the highest intimacy
Body Horror “Creation of Adam”

Arc Sign-up are open!
forms.gle/mFTWi1oZ8Uhn...
February 14, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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carolinekwriting.bsky.social
My unserious graphics for my very serious novel.

SINNERS x IWAV

Angeline wakes up with a taste for blood and a two hundred years of missing memories. As visions reveal flashes of her past, she must uncover the truth before danger crosses her doorway.

#Cupit #A #RoFa #LGBT #BIR #Q
February 14, 2026 at 5:20 AM
maratearendel.bsky.social
He feels nothing.
The vampire feels everything.
The castle wants the rest.

Frankenstein x Interview with the Vampire

March 2026.
Pre-orders open.

🩸 Hurt, and bleed, and want, and fear. Fear it all. Feel it all.🩸

www.amazon.com/dp/B0G6V8S6YQ

#cupit #gr #lgbt #pr #hor #er #poc
a trope map showing the cover of Awaken, My Love by Marat Earendel. The tropes are: erotic horror romance, gay vampires, hurt/comfort, haunted castle, angst &yearning, blood & lust, what are morals? The illustrated cover shows a brown vampire with red eyes and shoulder-length wavy black hair wearing antique black and white clothing while looking toward the viewer. He is holding a man in his hands. The man is pale with long beige hair, wearing white and cream colored clothing. He is in profile, looking up and gripping the vampire's shirt. There are split open pomegranates threaded through the burgundy title of the novel. In the background is a broken gothic window, and at the bottom are chains. The cover is in shades of reds, browns, mauves, and blacks. On a red and black background, it says: Astaire Bloom, an unfeeling man devoid of hope, takes a job in a remote castle under a mysterious employer. As sinister events unfold around him, he starts to feel things he thought himself incapable of. And the castle is hungry for it. To uncover the secrets buried within, he must endure more than he ever imagined.
February 14, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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cupitch.bsky.social
Happy Valentines Day and welcome to #Cupit the pitch hype event for all things Romance. Be sure to check out the rules and hashtag list. If your book involves valentines in it mark it with 💘. Don't forget you can also mark it with 📚💙 for #booksky. Good luck and have fun! 💝🥰
February 14, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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aymaneckford.bsky.social
🖤 Southern Gothic mystery
🩸 Modern, Vampire Chronicles–inspired
🖤 Rivals to lovers
🩸 A millennium-long family feud
🖤 Ancient vampires vs. modern life
🩸 Secret societies
🖤Founding families
🩸Several PoVs

Also…🏳️‍⚧️, 🏳️‍🌈, and autistic rep

#MupPit #NA #goth #WIP
The mood-board
February 13, 2026 at 1:31 PM
maratearendel.bsky.social
Might be writing something new for Awaken, My Love ...
February 13, 2026 at 6:25 PM
maratearendel.bsky.social
I made some author goals because every day that passes, the reality of being a published author becomes more real.

March 22nd. I still can't believe it.

#indieauthor #writingcommunity
February 13, 2026 at 3:06 PM
maratearendel.bsky.social
“You’re a fucking werewolf?”

It's such a comforting thing as a writer to see every reader mark the same spot as being funny. This is one of them. 🐺

#wipsnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
“You’re a fucking werewolf?” he asks. A laugh, sudden and unbidden, escapes me. From all the things I could foresee, this reaction was utterly astonishing. “Are you or not?” he adds, eyebrows raised expectantly. “No! I’m a fucking vampire,” I let out gruffly. “Bloody hell, seriously?” “Yes, seriously. It would be a poor joke, would it not?” I remark. To further my point, I lift a strand of his hair with my power. He barely glances at it and, with an absent motion, presses it back into place.
February 13, 2026 at 2:57 PM
maratearendel.bsky.social
Last day!
maratearendel.bsky.social Marat is writing about gay vampires @maratearendel.bsky.social · 7d
I partnered up with other authors to give you a bunch of MM romance, erotica stories, and books for free until the 12th on bookfunnel!

My story is about a repressed man unraveling under a vampire's touch.

#mmromance 💙 📚 🌈

books.bookfunnel.com/mm_forfreehe...
February 13, 2026 at 12:30 AM
maratearendel.bsky.social
I don't know why Castlevania is trending but this is either the perfect time or the worst time to mention my protagonist is inspired by Alucard.
February 13, 2026 at 12:22 AM