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Javin Blake
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•Javin• rhymes with raven •
•writes horror, humor & more •
• mom • wife • scientist • gardener •
• voracious reader • neurodivergent •
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Javin Blake @ravenjavinwrites.bsky.social · Nov 18
I made this graphic as marketing practice for my querying YA folk horror manuscript, SALTING DAY.

It's historical horror a lá THE VVITCH, and folk horror a lá MIDSOMMAR, with an angry girl who isn't afraid to embrace the darkness within 😈
A path through tall, skinny trees with the following text: an agent's guide to Salting Day, upper YA horror, 75,000 words Two gray text boxes with the following text. Left box: Pitch: Flames and flesh. Salt and blood. Pious hogwash. The Salting Day rituals of blood, salt, and sacrifice won't save Seventeen-year-old Damaris from the Ravenous, the demon that eats any who venture out of her cult-choked Pennsylvania town. Damaris must stop the bloody rituals and the person responsible for sacrificing villagers to the Ravenous, or all in her village will be devoured. Right side text: Themes: isolated village in the woods, ill-fated love, monstrous girl, folk horror, creeping dread, grief feminine rage, loss, body horror, religious horror, atmospheric world. A foggy path through the trees, with the text Comps in the center. Skeletal hands point from the word Books to the cover of MY THROAT AN OPEN GRAVE and SLEWFOOT, and two skeletal hands point from the word Films to THE VVITCH and MIDSOMMAR. A gray box with the following text: Snippet: The pile of salt was an oblong hill of translucent squares—all angles and sharp edges. Before long, everyone in the meeting house would be hard at work, preparing the sacrificial flesh for the Ravenous. Damaris shivered. Their crimson-coated arms, from elbow to dripping fingertips, would be laden with the life blood of the sows. Coarse junk salt would gouge their palms as they pressed the grains into the thirsty flesh, blooming pink as it reached the liquid from the surface. On the right side, a mood board with the following pictures: a steeple on a white curch, two wrought iron candle sticks with one lit white candle, a foggy, tree-lined path through the forest, a man all in black carrying a book, and a pair of muddy, upturned hands with the following text near the center: We should always endeavor to toil, to ever render our flesh palatable for the Eternal Flame. Damaris wrinkled her nose. "I do not wish to be palatable."
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My son, very magnanimously, shared his school-borne illness with me, so I'll be languishing on the couch, consuming wild amounts of historical and contemporary Gothic literature.

Doctor's orders, you see.
February 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Audiobooks: for when you have chores but would absolutely rather be reading

💫📖💫
January 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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I made this graphic as marketing practice for my querying YA folk horror manuscript, SALTING DAY.

It's historical horror a lá THE VVITCH, and folk horror a lá MIDSOMMAR, with an angry girl who isn't afraid to embrace the darkness within 😈
A path through tall, skinny trees with the following text: an agent's guide to Salting Day, upper YA horror, 75,000 words Two gray text boxes with the following text. Left box: Pitch: Flames and flesh. Salt and blood. Pious hogwash. The Salting Day rituals of blood, salt, and sacrifice won't save Seventeen-year-old Damaris from the Ravenous, the demon that eats any who venture out of her cult-choked Pennsylvania town. Damaris must stop the bloody rituals and the person responsible for sacrificing villagers to the Ravenous, or all in her village will be devoured. Right side text: Themes: isolated village in the woods, ill-fated love, monstrous girl, folk horror, creeping dread, grief feminine rage, loss, body horror, religious horror, atmospheric world. A foggy path through the trees, with the text Comps in the center. Skeletal hands point from the word Books to the cover of MY THROAT AN OPEN GRAVE and SLEWFOOT, and two skeletal hands point from the word Films to THE VVITCH and MIDSOMMAR. A gray box with the following text: Snippet: The pile of salt was an oblong hill of translucent squares—all angles and sharp edges. Before long, everyone in the meeting house would be hard at work, preparing the sacrificial flesh for the Ravenous. Damaris shivered. Their crimson-coated arms, from elbow to dripping fingertips, would be laden with the life blood of the sows. Coarse junk salt would gouge their palms as they pressed the grains into the thirsty flesh, blooming pink as it reached the liquid from the surface. On the right side, a mood board with the following pictures: a steeple on a white curch, two wrought iron candle sticks with one lit white candle, a foggy, tree-lined path through the forest, a man all in black carrying a book, and a pair of muddy, upturned hands with the following text near the center: We should always endeavor to toil, to ever render our flesh palatable for the Eternal Flame. Damaris wrinkled her nose. "I do not wish to be palatable."
November 18, 2024 at 12:03 AM
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I woke up at 5am with this in my head, and I squinted through the phone's blinding brightness to preserve it. Witchy love stories are my favorite ☺️

"Her soul sang to him of fresh turned soil warmed by the sun. Of summer and wheat and clear blue skies. Of comfort and peace. Of home."

#writers
January 28, 2024 at 1:02 PM
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I'll have you know, I was plotting things for my first chapter before bed last night, and I ACTUALLY remembered them this morning.

😄

#writingcommunity
January 8, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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I am meandering into the land of The Olds, where we want to keep up with the times and have ALL the SOCIALS, but time and life responsibilities eat up our energy. 🫠

Where are my fellow horror writers? Spooky aficionados? Dark fantasy and witchy folk? Let's be friends!
January 6, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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This is not a drill!
The Fall of the House of Usher is LIVE on Netflix.
I repeat, The Fall of the House of Usher is LIVE!
🖤😍🖤😍🖤
October 12, 2023 at 5:46 PM
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Ah, look. A new place for me to lurk. 🙃
October 1, 2023 at 11:02 PM