Raven Demory, Authoress 🌿💀🌿
@saintserene.bsky.social
Proper Noun: a queer writer of strange fiction and even stranger poetry, known for her obsession with religious history, typewriters and Gothic angst.
Del Rey, 2027
Repped by Allegra at Bookends Literary Agency
aravenwrites.wordpress.com
Del Rey, 2027
Repped by Allegra at Bookends Literary Agency
aravenwrites.wordpress.com
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🌿I'm going to be published!!!🌿
It's surreal knowing people are going to read about all the (damaged, dreadful, decaying) characters I've grown to love over this past year. I'm so proud of my weird little skeleton book!💀
It's surreal knowing people are going to read about all the (damaged, dreadful, decaying) characters I've grown to love over this past year. I'm so proud of my weird little skeleton book!💀
🌿I'm going to be published!!!🌿
It's surreal knowing people are going to read about all the (damaged, dreadful, decaying) characters I've grown to love over this past year. I'm so proud of my weird little skeleton book!💀
It's surreal knowing people are going to read about all the (damaged, dreadful, decaying) characters I've grown to love over this past year. I'm so proud of my weird little skeleton book!💀
January 15, 2026 at 12:37 PM
🌿I'm going to be published!!!🌿
It's surreal knowing people are going to read about all the (damaged, dreadful, decaying) characters I've grown to love over this past year. I'm so proud of my weird little skeleton book!💀
It's surreal knowing people are going to read about all the (damaged, dreadful, decaying) characters I've grown to love over this past year. I'm so proud of my weird little skeleton book!💀
Wrapping up 2025 by finishing a round of manuscript revisions and remembering that time my partner and I took a road trip across Scotland. Here's to another year of travel!
January 2, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Wrapping up 2025 by finishing a round of manuscript revisions and remembering that time my partner and I took a road trip across Scotland. Here's to another year of travel!
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my new hobby is pronouncing it "Florence Plus The Machine" until people ask me if that's how they should say it
November 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
my new hobby is pronouncing it "Florence Plus The Machine" until people ask me if that's how they should say it
Spent my time in the "between projects and looking for inspiration" doldrums fixing up typewriters and listening to Harrow the Ninth. My pride and joy is looking pretty spiffy with its new ribbon covers 👀
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Spent my time in the "between projects and looking for inspiration" doldrums fixing up typewriters and listening to Harrow the Ninth. My pride and joy is looking pretty spiffy with its new ribbon covers 👀
Grace would immediately forget she had it and then go back to threatening everyone she meets with a straight razor.
Either that or use it as a nervous fidget and commit accidental manslaughter😅
Either that or use it as a nervous fidget and commit accidental manslaughter😅
How much would your book/wip change if your MC had a gun #WritingPrompt
November 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Grace would immediately forget she had it and then go back to threatening everyone she meets with a straight razor.
Either that or use it as a nervous fidget and commit accidental manslaughter😅
Either that or use it as a nervous fidget and commit accidental manslaughter😅
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it's interesting what happened to the Hell House LLC series. the first one was just a really efficient haunted house of a movie, one good scare after another. it did well and the screenwriter's eyes rolled back in his head and he started mumbling "more lore, more lore"
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
it's interesting what happened to the Hell House LLC series. the first one was just a really efficient haunted house of a movie, one good scare after another. it did well and the screenwriter's eyes rolled back in his head and he started mumbling "more lore, more lore"
Dale Gribble would've really fucked with Muse
October 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Dale Gribble would've really fucked with Muse
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From the Larchives: The Rocky Horus Picture Scroll. One of my favorite works. I had the assistance of an Egyptology PhD student to translate the Time Warp phonetically. Enjoy :)
October 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
From the Larchives: The Rocky Horus Picture Scroll. One of my favorite works. I had the assistance of an Egyptology PhD student to translate the Time Warp phonetically. Enjoy :)
New profile blurb, who's this? 🌿👀🌿
October 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
New profile blurb, who's this? 🌿👀🌿
This may or may not also be a spoiler for the whole second half of the book
The Barrowvine Saint would smell like an oddities shop if it was set up in Mammoth Cave and drenched in blood.
What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?
October 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This may or may not also be a spoiler for the whole second half of the book
The Barrowvine Saint would smell like an oddities shop if it was set up in Mammoth Cave and drenched in blood.
What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?
October 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The Barrowvine Saint would smell like an oddities shop if it was set up in Mammoth Cave and drenched in blood.
RIP my sense of smell. 5 years without covid and the woman in row 26 just *had* to cough the whole way from Edinburgh to Dulles 🙄
October 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
RIP my sense of smell. 5 years without covid and the woman in row 26 just *had* to cough the whole way from Edinburgh to Dulles 🙄
Desiderata: chastising the candle stand for not selling anything jasmine-scented
Grace: being hunted down like a dog by Sereth in the corn maze
Fletcher: ten pints deep in spiked cider, trying to get punched
Grace: being hunted down like a dog by Sereth in the corn maze
Fletcher: ten pints deep in spiked cider, trying to get punched
Your characters are headed to a harvest festival. Who's buying all the candles and soaps, who's getting lose in the corn maze, and who's just there for the cider? #WritingPrompt
September 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Desiderata: chastising the candle stand for not selling anything jasmine-scented
Grace: being hunted down like a dog by Sereth in the corn maze
Fletcher: ten pints deep in spiked cider, trying to get punched
Grace: being hunted down like a dog by Sereth in the corn maze
Fletcher: ten pints deep in spiked cider, trying to get punched
Pippin: yeah, I've been working on my mental health. I've limited my time looking into the Palantir of Orthanc to 3 hours a day.
September 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Pippin: yeah, I've been working on my mental health. I've limited my time looking into the Palantir of Orthanc to 3 hours a day.
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I mean, Eschatological ideation often arises in moments of sociopolitical upheaval as a kind of hedge against uncertainty, even tho the referent text explicitly says "none shall know the day/hour" & basically tells you to live your life like god might call you to account any second but sure, fuck it
September 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I mean, Eschatological ideation often arises in moments of sociopolitical upheaval as a kind of hedge against uncertainty, even tho the referent text explicitly says "none shall know the day/hour" & basically tells you to live your life like god might call you to account any second but sure, fuck it
Putting the Complaint Tablet to Ea Nasir on my TBR ziggurat. It's a cozy coppercore clients-to-enemies-to-lovers pen pals romysterantasy.
September 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Putting the Complaint Tablet to Ea Nasir on my TBR ziggurat. It's a cozy coppercore clients-to-enemies-to-lovers pen pals romysterantasy.
Dessert mode ACTIVATE:
Best pie: key lime
Best ice cream: coffee/affogato
Best donut: French cruller
Best bar: lemon
Best cake: red velvet
Best other: black licorice
Best pie: key lime
Best ice cream: coffee/affogato
Best donut: French cruller
Best bar: lemon
Best cake: red velvet
Best other: black licorice
Everything is awful so why not?
Dessert mode ACTIVATE:
Best pie: pumpkin
Best ice cream: butter pecan or just really really high quality vanilla
Best donut: old fashioned
Best bar: lemon
Best cake: coconut
Best other: sticky toffee pudding
Dessert mode ACTIVATE:
Best pie: pumpkin
Best ice cream: butter pecan or just really really high quality vanilla
Best donut: old fashioned
Best bar: lemon
Best cake: coconut
Best other: sticky toffee pudding
Dessert mode ACTIVATE:
Best pie: Sweet Potato
Best ice cream: Butter Pecan or Salted Caramel
Best donut: Devil's food
Best bar: Lemon
Best cake: Carrot
Best other: Reese's PB cups
Best pie: Sweet Potato
Best ice cream: Butter Pecan or Salted Caramel
Best donut: Devil's food
Best bar: Lemon
Best cake: Carrot
Best other: Reese's PB cups
September 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Dessert mode ACTIVATE:
Best pie: key lime
Best ice cream: coffee/affogato
Best donut: French cruller
Best bar: lemon
Best cake: red velvet
Best other: black licorice
Best pie: key lime
Best ice cream: coffee/affogato
Best donut: French cruller
Best bar: lemon
Best cake: red velvet
Best other: black licorice
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H.P. Lovecraft: Your limited human mind cannot comprehend Cthulhu
Me: (comprehending easily) Squid guy
Me: (comprehending easily) Squid guy
October 1, 2023 at 5:23 PM
H.P. Lovecraft: Your limited human mind cannot comprehend Cthulhu
Me: (comprehending easily) Squid guy
Me: (comprehending easily) Squid guy
Currently vacillating between two prospective projects so fast it sounds like beetle wings.
To prequel, or to sequel?
To prequel, or to sequel?
September 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Currently vacillating between two prospective projects so fast it sounds like beetle wings.
To prequel, or to sequel?
To prequel, or to sequel?
Halfway through my first week in 8 months of not working on this novel and realizing that writing really is the one thing keeping me sane
September 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Halfway through my first week in 8 months of not working on this novel and realizing that writing really is the one thing keeping me sane
#HIGMA, part 1/?
Back in July, I signed with my agent to represent my fantasy horror novel, the Barrowvine Saint. Compared to my two previous querying journeys, this one was certainly a roller coaster.
Even after a couple months, it's still hard to believe this is happening!
#writingcommunity
Back in July, I signed with my agent to represent my fantasy horror novel, the Barrowvine Saint. Compared to my two previous querying journeys, this one was certainly a roller coaster.
Even after a couple months, it's still hard to believe this is happening!
#writingcommunity
September 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
#HIGMA, part 1/?
Back in July, I signed with my agent to represent my fantasy horror novel, the Barrowvine Saint. Compared to my two previous querying journeys, this one was certainly a roller coaster.
Even after a couple months, it's still hard to believe this is happening!
#writingcommunity
Back in July, I signed with my agent to represent my fantasy horror novel, the Barrowvine Saint. Compared to my two previous querying journeys, this one was certainly a roller coaster.
Even after a couple months, it's still hard to believe this is happening!
#writingcommunity
I'm in my early 30s, so one out of two ain't bad, I guess.
Does it help if my occult detective is *also* a gin-soaked wreck?
Does it help if my occult detective is *also* a gin-soaked wreck?
You must be at least 40 and a gin-soaked wreck before you even think to turn your creative attention to the Occult Detective.
September 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I'm in my early 30s, so one out of two ain't bad, I guess.
Does it help if my occult detective is *also* a gin-soaked wreck?
Does it help if my occult detective is *also* a gin-soaked wreck?
My manx kitten is twice the size he should be at 4 months old and I think I'm in danger
September 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
My manx kitten is twice the size he should be at 4 months old and I think I'm in danger
Whoever invented the Kalita Wave is definitely going to heaven when they die ☕
September 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Whoever invented the Kalita Wave is definitely going to heaven when they die ☕