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Ella Murphy (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦
@nossumusstellae.bsky.social
Writer & visual artist- Proud queer/LGBTQIA 🏳️‍🌈
*Drink tea. Be loud. Have opinions.*
Author of The Starsinger Chronicles
My Carrd: ellamurphy.carrd.co
Querying Archive of Memory

*Empty profile/AI content/scam/bot/nsfw/something just feels off to me= block*
Pinned
#AgentGuide for Archive of Memory Anthology (52k word, two short story collection)
*The stories: Guardian and Nightfall
*Fantasy + Contemporary / Literary Fiction
*Asexual female main characters
*YA / New Adult

Website for more details: archiveofmemory.carrd.co

#queerwriter #queerbooks 🌈📚♠️
Working on a new cover for Archive of Memory.

Persephone looks even shorter next to Jaye 😁

(Persephone is 5'3". Jaye is 5'9.5")
November 8, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The Starsinger Chronicles smells like the ocean and sea breeze with a hint of fish

Guardian smells like mist and pine trees

Nightfall smells like leather and New York (which can be either a good thing or a bad thing)

Such an interesting question. Had to really think about it!

#writingcommunity
For everyone🕯️manifesting🕯️their author dream, what do we think an invitation for THE CALL smells like?🕯️✨

🌲The Deep Woods
🌊Sea & Salt
🥐Freshly Baked Goods
🍂A Fall Day
❓Something else? (Suggestions in comments welcome!)

My candles are lit! 🤞

#writingcommunity
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Until next time #QuestPit !

May your pitches reach agents and editors

May your queries be successful
November 6, 2025 at 3:21 AM
WIP: The Reflections Saga

Jaye Avenheart's story is not over yet. 👀

🪞Sequel to Nightfall
🪞Expect Newfoundland English and a lot of it (also Scottish Gaelic)
🪞Family secrets and the fallout
🪞Unexpected love
🪞Tagline: "There are shadows in every reflection"

#W #CON #A #YA #LGBT #QuestPit
November 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Archive of Memory: GUARDIAN & NIGHTFALL

Greek myths meet supernatural spookiness.
A story of growing up and breaking free.

Featuring:
*Cinnamon roll protagonist
*A grumpy Spirit Hunter
*Unapologetic butch main character
*Family is complicated
*Unexpected connections

#Q #CON #F #A #LGBT #QuestPit
#AgentGuide for Archive of Memory Anthology (52k word, two short story collection)
*The stories: Guardian and Nightfall
*Fantasy + Contemporary / Literary Fiction
*Asexual female main characters
*YA / New Adult

Website for more details: archiveofmemory.carrd.co

#queerwriter #queerbooks 🌈📚♠️
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
On the edge of a knife, a life will change. A new future awaits.
Jaye thinks she is fated to sit behind prison bars. Cursed to be her father’s daughter.
♠️complex fam. relationships
♠️visceral fight scenes
♠️defiant butch MC
♠️from teen to adult
Archive of Memory: NIGHTFALL
#Q #CON #A #LGBT #QuestPit
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A single choice can change the world. Or destroy an entire timeline.
Persephone did not expect falling in love to cause so many repercussions.
📜partially inspired by Greek myth
📜multi POV
📜told in journal excerpts
📜supernatural elements
Archive of Memory: GUARDIAN
#Q #F #A #YA #LGBT #QuestPit
November 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Typing out an old story is super fun when it is handwritten on scraps of paper and said writing is so bad you can't make out half the words
November 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Take Persephone, Keeper of Fate (Seems badass, is cinnamon roll; Given mystery mission by the Fates and has no idea what she's doing)

+ Bishop, resident Spirit Hunter (Hates the Fates for dragging him into their shenanigans; Has secrets of his own)

Result? Guardian.

👻 #GhostPit #F #A #YA #LGBT
October 30, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Pagan story and Greek myth dance together in Guardian, a tale of Spirits, Nephilim, & Fate.

The Keeper of Story is never supposed to defy the Fates. When presented with an impossible choice, Persephone finds herself doing just that – and suffering the consequences.

👻 #GhostPit #Q #F #A #YA #LGBT
October 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A single choice can change the world. Or destroy an entire timeline. Persephone did not expect falling in love to cause so many repercussions.

📜partially inspired by Greek myth
📜multi POV
📜told in journal entries
📜supernatural elements

Archive of Memory-GUARDIAN
👻 #GhostPit #Q #F #A #YA #LGBT
October 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Dressing as two characters this year 🎃

1. My DND PC Therai, Tiefling and owner of The Gloved Fox Tavern😈

2. RNC Inspector Donny "Fitz" Fitzpatrick from CBC crime show Saint-Pierre🕵️
It's the final countdown! #GhostPit begins TOMORROW at 12 AM EST. We can't wait to see all of your pitches!

For our final question, we were wondering: what are you (or your characters) dressing up as for Halloween?
October 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
🟩 Walking encyclopedia of Spirit world knowledge, will always try her best to help in any way she can

🟥 Is a tad naive about the ways of the world, and sometimes places her trust in the wrong beings

(Persephone is truly trying her best. She's been alone a while, okay??)

#GhostPit
Hello writers! It's almost that time---#GhostPit is just three short days away!

Question 4: What is one red flag AND green flag your MC has?

(Sorry I thought this went up yesterday. 🫣)
October 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Queer Bluesky: how old were you when you came out & how old are you now?

Discovered the word asexual at 15/16. Thank you science teacher who had rainbow sticker with all the queer words on it. Cue me asking mom: what is asexual?
Knew I was lesbian/genderqueer from very early age 🌈
Am now in my 30s!
Queer Bluesky: how old were you when you came out and how old are you now?

late 20's/ early 30's–>39

I wasn't into dating or sex in my 20's. My gender was masculine and feminine and not really either. I didn't find labels to 'come out with' -nonbinary, asexual & aromantic- till early 30's-ish.
Queer Bluesky: how old were you when you came out and how old are you now?

15/35(?)/41(?) —> 45

I came out as bi at 15 to a few people. Publicly in my early 30s (it was still a crime in my state until my late 20s).

I came out as nonbinary before age 36, I think, and as a nbi trans man early 40s.
October 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
My favourite side character in Guardian is Birch. Birch is a Spirit who went undercover to help the Fates judge Persephone's suitability to become Keeper.

Birch is a joy to write. A trickster at heart, she never takes no for an answer and is always stealing things to give to Persephone.

#GhostPit
It's that time again! We're just 6 days away from #GhostPit. Are you getting excited?

Question 3: Who is your favorite side character in your current project?
October 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Have the haunted vibes of the Spirit infested woods in the first story of the Archive of Memory Anthology: Guardian.

If you smell petrichor & geosmin and it's not raining: the dangerous skeletal Spirits have found you. Ready your weapons and prepare for a fight. To their death or yours.

#GhostPit
October 23, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Finally finished the draft of the new Reflections Saga, two months shy of the 11th anniversary of the original.

Added nearly 7k words based on what others thought.

I have learned so much writing this woman's story over the years.

Jaye has come a long way. She's grown a lot.

And I have too.

🌈📚♠️
October 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Late evening / night is the usual time for stories to whisper in my ear

I write at my second-hand desk on my laptop (sometimes handwrite on journal pages!)

Sometimes music is playing, sometimes not

There is usually a tea or hot chocolate involved

If October: Halloween decorations

#Ghostpit
#GhostPit is only 10 days away! Are you ready for some fun and frights? 👻

Q1: What is your go-to writing routine?
October 21, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Forced to serve the Fates. Tasked to observe, remove stray threads in the world’s story.
Persephone never intended to fall in love. Never wanted to defy Fate.
When given a difficult choice, she follows her heart – and must survive the consequences.
Archive of Memory: GUARDIAN
#F #A #YA #LGBT #DVPit
October 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
A grungy bar. Unruly bikers. Blood spilled by the edge of a knife.
Jaye thinks her life is over, doomed to wear cuffs & sit behind prison bars. Cursed to be her father’s daughter.
What she does not know is her story was never meant to end here.
Archive of Memory: NIGHTFALL
#CON #A #YA #LGBT #DVPit
October 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
In a single moment, a life can change - or an entire timeline can vanish. On the sharp edge of a knife; in the snapping of Fate's thread.

The past is always a complicated thing. Open the book. Reveal the secrets.

Archive of Memory: Guardian & Nightfall. 52k words.
#CON #F #A #YA #LGBT #DVPit
October 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
On the edge of a knife, everything changes.
Jaye thinks her life is over behind prison bars. Her journey has just begun.
♠️complex family relationships
♠️visceral fight scenes
♠️unapologetically butch MC
♠️from early teens to adulthood
Archive of Memory: NIGHTFALL
#CON #A #YA #LGBT #DVPit
October 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
A single choice can change the world. Or destroy an entire timeline.
Persephone did not expect falling in love to cause so many repercussions.
📜partially inspired by Greek myth
📜multi POV
📜told in journal excerpts
📜supernatural elements
Archive of Memory: GUARDIAN
#F #A #YA #LGBT #DVPit
October 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Defy the Fates. Uncover a painful past.
A young woman pulled from her life and forced into servitude. Another running from the trauma in her past.
📚multi POV 📚choices made, consequences ensue
Archive of Memory: Guardian & Nightfall.
52k words
#CON #F #A #YA #LGBT #DVPit
October 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
#DVParty

When doing research, we often think reading articles or visiting places or zooming around StreetView.

With my WIP "The Reflections Saga", the most valuable help comes from a Newfoundlander friend.

You can learn so much from the people who live in the places you are writing.

Thank you <3
October 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM