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Shannon Monson - Author
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Wife, Indie author of YA Fantasy, homemade🍕specialist, 🐕🐈‍-sitter.
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BADGERBLOOD: AWAKENING
IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES X THE PRINCESS BRIDE
✅ Reclusive outlaw MMC
✅ Lost Hero
✅ Reluctant Chosen One
✅ Amnesia
✅ Hunted
✅ Evading false murder charges
✅ Feral Timberland
✅ Tyrant
✅ Good vs. Evil
✅ Headstrong FMC
✅ Luck-thieving girl
✅ Magic pendant
#QuestPit #F #YA #P
a man leaning against a wall with the words " who are you " above him
Alt: Half-dead Wesley from The Princess Bride leaning against a wall with the words "who are you?" and "Are we enemies?" flashing below him
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Wow thank you so much for all the kind support on #QuestPit today! What an awesome writing community! Saw some awesome pitches out there today! Great work everyone! Don't give up!
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November 6, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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BADGERBLOOD: AWAKENING

Elements of IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES mix with THE PRINCESS BRIDE in this multi-POV, medieval style YA Fantasy.

#QuestPit #F #YA #P
November 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Neuroscience tells us human consciousness arises from neurons connecting and interacting.

But those are not the only cells in our brains.

In EXAPTATION, neuroscientist Joakim Mayor discovers each human brain can hold more than one mind.

Which mind deserves control?
November 4, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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WAKE was inspired by HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE w/:

~A self-sacrificing girl cursed w/ unwanted magic
~Who ends up living w/ a defective group
~Where she's teased w/ a feathery secret
~They develop a found family
~& she falls for 1 of them

Coming Spring 27

#QuestPit #P #YA #F #MY #R
a cartoon of a man and a woman looking into each others eyes
Alt: Sophie and Howl from the Howl's Moving Castle movie embracing while Howl is in his feathered form and fiery ash falls from the sky.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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SIX OF CROWS X WHAT WAKES THE BELLS

After his sister is cursed by a vengeful goddess, a former pickpocket must steal a relic from the most powerful man in the city to save her. But he can’t pull it off alone, and not everyone in his ragtag crew can be trusted.

#QuestPit #NA #F #BVM #POC #Q #Heist
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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A FORGERY OF FATE X LITTLE THIEVES

Pearl's got three months to kiss a prince or become sea foam—if she isn't killed by his cousin's harpoon first, of course.

🧜‍♀️Mermaid with a side of thievery and stalking
🪄Magic (and phones, I guess)
👫First Friend (like ever)
🍽️Predator x Prey?
#QuestPit #Q #YA #F
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Dracula, Wolfman, Frankenstein, The Bride, The Mummy, and Gill-man. A group of tweens stumble upon an ancient gem that grants them the power to turn into these monsters to protect it from an ancient sorcerer determined to reclaim it and take over the world. 👻 #QuestPit #MG #Q #BIPOC
November 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
BADGERBLOOD: AWAKENING

Elements of IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES mix with THE PRINCESS BRIDE in this multi-POV, medieval style YA Fantasy.

#QuestPit #F #YA #P
November 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
BADGERBLOOD: AWAKENING
IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES X THE PRINCESS BRIDE
✅ Reclusive outlaw MMC
✅ Lost Hero
✅ Reluctant Chosen One
✅ Amnesia
✅ Hunted
✅ Evading false murder charges
✅ Feral Timberland
✅ Tyrant
✅ Good vs. Evil
✅ Headstrong FMC
✅ Luck-thieving girl
✅ Magic pendant
#QuestPit #F #YA #P
a man leaning against a wall with the words " who are you " above him
Alt: Half-dead Wesley from The Princess Bride leaning against a wall with the words "who are you?" and "Are we enemies?" flashing below him
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November 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We make homemade pizza just for fun, also because it's delicious, and yesterday we made pizza pretzels. But also, kinda forgot to get a shot of them, so you get the mad mummy dogs instead with a peek at the pizza pretzels on the left. Happy October! 😊🎃

#Halloween #pizza
October 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Ran out of steam before I could post a thank you for the awesome support in UnhingedPit yesterday! That was my first Unhinged event. It was🎶awesome!🎶 Thank you, fellow writers! Best of writing and life to you each today.
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September 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Sorry. Last, last #UnhingedPit post, promise. This is for a 2nd project, my WIP, Badgerblood 2.

Princess Bride X Sword of Shannara X Don Quixote...? (Maybe. But without singing and hair. Maybe. Okay, MOST POVs w/hair. 🧔)
#FingerDrawing #WIP #YA #F #OutlawMMC #AdventurousFMC
September 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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y'all know the drill by now:

~kidnapped ballerina
~panic disorder
~fantasy fugitives
~their leader's magic stuck in her
~forced to live w/ them
~spying for freedom
~forced proximity
~found family
~slow burn romance

blah blah etc like my book🙏

#UnhingedPit #CS #YA #F #M #R #MH
September 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Sorry. Last, last #UnhingedPit post, promise. This is for a 2nd project, my WIP, Badgerblood 2.

Princess Bride X Sword of Shannara X Don Quixote...? (Maybe. But without singing and hair. Maybe. Okay, MOST POVs w/hair. 🧔)
#FingerDrawing #WIP #YA #F #OutlawMMC #AdventurousFMC
September 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Last of my #UnhingedPit posts!
SWORD OF SHANNARA X SHADOW OF THE FOX
Chuck Norris doesn't cry tears, he cries badgers.

#YA #F #P #SelfPublished
September 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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What's more unhinged than doing more than 3 posts? 😏

WAKE, a wildly reimagined BEAUTY AND THE BEAST retelling featuring a hate-hate relationship with:

~pointless fights
~bickering
~name calling
~& this kind of energy

You're welcome, world 😈

#Unhingedpit #CS #YA #F #M #R #MH
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September 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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How to win over a girl:

1. Kidnap her

2. Torture her

3. Force her to live with you

4. Take away her hopes & dreams

5. Accidentally throw things at her when she surprises you

6. Freak out if she touches you

7. Give her the silent treatment

#UnhingedPit #CS #YA #F #M #R #MH
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September 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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🚨 ESCAPED FUGITIVES ALERT 🚨

3 high-risk fugitives vanished from Agency prison without a trace

When: unknown

All very powerful & dangerous

If you think you see something, DO NOT ENGAGE. Report to your local Agency representative immediately

#UnhingedPit #CS #YA #F #M #R #MH
September 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I love this book sooo much! (beta reader) So stoked it's finally getting published!
September 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Last of my #UnhingedPit posts!
SWORD OF SHANNARA X SHADOW OF THE FOX
Chuck Norris doesn't cry tears, he cries badgers.

#YA #F #P #SelfPublished
September 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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UNHOLY TRINITY is what would happen if George Orwell and Margaret Atwood tripped on MK-ULTRA drugs together, watched "Real Genius" and "The Last Castle," got the plots mixed up, and then wrote dystopian AU fanfic about it.

#UnhingedPit #A #SpF #Q

(Now w/ 500% more Tumblresque character moodboards)
September 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Cryptids are tricky especially when they’re hungry… follow Alice’s advice and you’ll be just fine.. after all curse breakers and cryptids go together like peanut butter and lasagna. #cryptids #magic #mgfantasy #bluecrew #bluesky #amquerying #F #MG #Q #UnhingedPit
September 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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The Society of Curse Breakers as told by memes. Bone Apple Tea.

Comps

The Shadow Thieves by Anne Ursu, The Cabinet of Wonders by Marie Rutkoski and Trust No One by Linda Sue Park
#UnhingedPit #F #MG #YA #Q #amquerying #mgfantasy
September 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Badgerblood: Awakening - "Get out of jail free" Pinterest fail.
Graceling X Shadow of the Fox

#UnhingedPit #P #SelfPublished #YA #F
a cartoon of a man in a stockade with the words i 'm free i 'm free
Alt: a cartoon of the old man from Disney's "Hunchback of Notre Dame" escaping from a stockade with the words i 'm free i 'm free, only to fall down a manhole.
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September 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP
How far would you go to make sure your loved ones survive? For a retired explorer, that burning question never ceases to exist. When he overhears a rumour about a mysterious forest, he ventures back into the wild, desperation overwhelming every other emotion.
#PosterPit #Q #T #A
August 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM