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Willy is writing disaster jocks 🏈🌲
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Author of Norse-inspired YA Fantasy, paranormal Romance, and short fiction that disappoints my parents. Stories in Were Wolf and Loki (Flame Tree Press) + Ghoulish Tales #4

she/her | parent of one human, servant to one cat | aspiring bigfoot
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When 15yo Ref's famous hero parents are attacked and captured on an important mission, leaving him & his friend-turned-rival Styra trapped in the Wildwood, the two must work together to escape their hunters before Ref's family line can end for good

#LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #YA #F
I've been tracking stats about YA book deals + their protagonists' genders for a very long time. Frankly, it's at the point where I don't even want to query my boy-led books anymore. I will! But man is it soul-crushing.

How many times will teachers, parents, librarians have to tap this sign?
Going through the spring 2026 young adult fiction releases, and from what I can tell so far, all of the books with male protagonists are romances. I don't see any sports books, male friendship, action/adventure, humor, mystery, or dystopian books (that don't share the stage with romance).
a close up of a bald man with a beard and mustache looking up at the sky .
Alt: A slow zoom in on Tupac Shakur's face. He's leaning his head back and blinking slowly, looking blank.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
First pumpkin pie of the season is out of the oven! Made with locally grown Winter Luxury pumpkin, molasses, and a big spoonful of stem ginger syrup 🎃 🍽️

someday i will learn to make pretty crusts. today was not that day
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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only a couple more days to submit!
Ghoulish Tales has reopened submissions until October 17, 2025. Nothing longer than 5k words. Payment is 10c per word. Full guidelines here: ghoulish.rip/ghoulish-tal...
October 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
look. is Grayson the most refined 16-year-old in the world? no. Is he the star player on his football team? no.

BUT is he capable of solving paranormal mysteries and fending off the things that lurk in the woods to protect the daughter of a famous influencer? also no.

#unhingedpit #WIP #YA
September 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
!! eeeeee!! this was my very first ever acceptance and I'm still so stoke they took a chance on lil ol' me 🥹

if you want to read some fresh and gooey spooky stories AND my own lyrical little ditty with my take on eating(? absorbing?) the rich, go pick this up right now. right now, I say
Good news, ghouls. The long-awaited fourth issue of our magazine, Ghoulish Tales, is finally out. Learn more about the issue—and read editor Mindy Rose's introduction essay—here: ghoulish.rip/confessions-...
September 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Brandy and Caleb were your typical angsty teen and werewolf couple. But now they're all grown up, and local residents are going missing. Is Caleb's bloodlust out of control, or is something more sinister happening in their tiny town?

#A #MY #T #QuestPit
August 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
SUPERNATURAL x FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS

As if two-a-days weren't bad enough, compulsive liar Grayson is now doing hard time (in a donut shop)

When a bruised girl runs in, asking to hide, he has to unravel the dark secrets of an influencer family before she's lost to the trees

#QuestPit #W #YA #MY #PR
August 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
RAVEN BOYS x FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS

When a starved+beaten girl runs through the donut shop where he's working alone, Grayson has to convince his teammates she's in danger & hiding in the woods

The only problem? She's a famous influencer, and her accounts are posting as usual

#QuestPit #YA #W #MY #PR
August 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Lovely friends, I need your help. If you can, please like and share this so it may reach the people it needs to.

Last night my dear friend's loved one, Lupe, called 911 after being hit by her drunk boyfriend. This is not the first time this has happened. What followed landed her in ICE custody. 1/?
July 15, 2025 at 4:27 AM
not a lot of people know that the main character in my Norse-inspired YA Fantasy is a board-certified master of poetry 🤌🪶📜

#unhingedpit #YA #F #Q
July 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
In which Esther realizes she is the reason god stays in heaven 👻🍆

#unhingedpit #A #R
July 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Is your old Delinquent Jock no longer solving mysteries like he's supposed to? Upgrade today to receive bonus Runaway Girl + Football Team Members! 🌲🏈

100% APR (A Paranormal Rescue)

Great for off-roading through forests that might bite

Capable of outrunning evil (probably)

#unhingedpit #YA #WIP
July 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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June 25, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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My #RevPitShowcase materials are live! LET HER INHERIT RUIN features:

💎 🪽/🐊 forbidden 💜
💎 enemies-to-lovers
💎 forced proximity,
he falls 1st
💎 gemstone magic & transformations
💎 mixed race rep
💎 mythical creatures of 🇹🇭
reviseresub.com/showcase/let...

#LitAgents #Editors
#RevPitClassOf25
June 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Throw Raven Boys and Friday Night Lights in a blender, top with a dollop of Stepford Wives, and garnish with chopped Norwegian folklore 🌲🏈🕵️🌳
Now let's make the elevator pitch for your book/WIP! Summarize your book in just one line! If you need help, try "[thing a] meets [thing b]" as a format. #WritingPrompt
May 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
boosting!! Definitely check out this auction to help out a friend in the writing community if you can 🙏
🌟UPCOMING AUCTION 🌟
The auction will start tomorrow, May 9.
Stay tuned for the link 📷 and please boost and share.
In the meantime, more teasers of what is being offered:
May 9, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Being sentenced to sell donuts all summer was bad enough for compulsive liar Grayson

But when a beaten girl runs into the shop & asks to hide, Gray & his fellow varsity starters have to unravel the deadly secrets of a local influencer family—before she's lost to the trees

#questpit #W #MY #PNR #YA
May 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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🌟UPCOMING AUCTION 🌟

I'm grateful to the writing community for launching a literary auction on May 9 to help my survival. Please boost and participate.
Stay tuned for the link in the next few days. 👀
In the meantime, here’s a teaser of what’s being offered:
May 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
oh man there are several to choose from, but I'm absolutely seated waiting for these two to come out!
May 4, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Currently deep in the #amquerying bittersweet feeling of sending out a book that you know has very little chance of success BUT not in a self-deprecating way

I'm proud of this book, I believe it can sell, but I also understand the trad market is an unknowable beast. 'Tis a strange limbo to sit in 😅
April 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Medieval scenes ❤️
April 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Sent out my first queries for my boy-led Lower YA Fantasy, so now I get to direct all my nervous energy into my #amwriting #WIP

Four football players finding frights in forests full of fanatical 'fluencers
April 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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To anyone struggling to make their art:

THEY WANT YOU TO STOP WRITING/PAINTING/MAKING.

They fear our rich inner lives, beyond even their reach. They fear our revolutionary fantasies, our ungovernable and unprofitable thoughts.

Yes, the obstacles are greater than ever.

So is the need.
April 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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just going to take a quick moment to revel in the fact that - at this moment - I'm the only unbusted bracket left in my family's #marchmadness group

finally, I have become the chief sibling, all thanks to McNeese
March 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM