Beth “B.R” Smith
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Beth “B.R” Smith
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I write books about strange weather, murder and the places people drink coffee. Occasional painter of things.

Rep: Amanda Jain at BookEnds Literary.

https://linktr.ee/brsmithbooks
A girl.
Her dog.
A whole lot of trouble.

When Kit Raglan takes a job staying a night in a haunted house, she expects a quiet night, maybe a ghost if she's lucky. Instead, she finds herself implicated in a murder, kicking off a cat-and-mouse game with a bird-masked killer.

#QuestPit #WIP #T #AG
November 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
#Editors of #QuestPit

Haunted since her father’s drowning by nightmares of a revenant Mariner who bears his face, writer Lee Fisk returns to the lighthouse where he spent his last days in search of closure. But on the island, THE MARINER is more than mere nightmare. It’s a curse.

#S #H #MY #OS
November 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
A writer infiltrates a reader’s retreat in an old hunting lodge under false pretences only to find herself the target of a taxidermist with the ability to reanimate the dead - including the hunting trophies in every room of the lodge. #GhostPit #A #H #T #W
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Trapped in a remote offshore weather station in the path of a deadly supernatural storm, a former salvage diver recounts her ill-fated descent into a world of magic and monsters as she plans her perilous escape. #GhostPit #A #W #F #PN
October 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
A girl.
Her dog.
A whole lot of trouble.

When Kit Raglan takes a quick job staying a night in a haunted house to make a few bucks, she expects a quiet night, maybe a ghost if she's really lucky. Instead, she finds a body with her name carved into it. HERE COMES TROUBLE. #GhostPit #A #W #T 👻
October 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I had one of those days where the words just weren’t coming yesterday. Here are all the things I tried. I ended up making it over the next 10K interval in my current project and writing the beginning of the next one!

#writingcommunity #writersky
October 26, 2025 at 3:48 AM
How I structure a novel, a loose guide:
October 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The horrors persist, but so do dogs.

Sharing a snippet of my thriller WIP about a girl, her dog and a whole lot of trouble.

#writesky #writingcommunity #thrillerbooks
October 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
🌊 A storm-buffeted island of folklore and superstition.

🌊 A writer grieving her father’s drowning death in an isolated lighthouse keeper’s cottage.

🌊 A cursed Mariner who will tear her apart to stop her learning the truth.

#WriteSky #OS #AG #MY #T #H #questpit
August 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
“But the image that will stick like a burr in his mind, which will appear to him in quiet moments for the rest of his life, is of long tendrils of red hair swaying like the tentacles of a Pacific octopus in the chill water of the hold.”

#OS #AG #A #MY #T #H #QuestPit
August 6, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Introducing my #WIP THE TAXIDERMIST, a romantic horror mystery described as THE HUNTING PARTY X RIP VAN WINKLE.

Illustration: own work.
Background image: provided copyright free by Birmingham Museum Trust.

#RT #MiseryPit #A
July 5, 2025 at 11:16 PM
My video this week on Last Chance Writer’s Club is about finding joy in your creative process again. 🍁💛

If you watch it, I’d love you to let me know one of your ‘joy notes’ for today.

#writingcommunity

youtu.be/XY1jc8YBrBA?...
June 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This week on Last Chance I’m talking writing to your strengths. This was honestly the most transformative practice for me - to actively seek out the gold in feedback and use it to be even better at what I’m good at. I hope this discussion serves you, too!

youtu.be/YmxwcmDxddQ?...
May 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Art + words from my WIP about a doomed reader’s retreat. I’ve never painted in a journal before, and I think I’ll have to continue. It makes me so happy!
May 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I’ve been searching for ways to give back to the #writingcommunity that has supported me for so many years, and what I came up with was this: The Last Chance Writer’s Club.
May 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
In this locked room mystery/horror, a horror writer at a reader’s retreat in the Washington woods unravels the tangled histories of the attendees when flooding washes out the only road into town and something monstrous stalks the readers from the trees.

#QuestPit #WIP #a #m #h
May 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
🌊A small boy finds a body floating in the fish hold of his father’s boat.

🌊A writer packs up her missing lighthouse keeper father’s things.

🌊A private investigator searches for the missing and the drowned.

🌊A horror rises from the deep.

#questpit #onsub #editors #m #h #a #os
May 7, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Quick after work oil painting. The sea wolves were calling.
May 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
When you sign with my literary agency they ask for a few things, one of which is an author photo. I’ve been putting this one off since… erm, November. But today I did it and I’m so glad I did. For one of the few times in my life, the outside of me looks somewhat like the inside of me. #WriteSky
April 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
#Editors

“There is no sleep to be had in winter. The sea wind howls too loud, buffeting the fishing boat and the small boy curled up inside.”

#1stLinePit #Gothic #A #M #H
April 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Just a perfect early autumn afternoon. ☀️🌊🍃
April 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I’m the Scooby Doo of the horror writing set.🤷‍♀️ #unhingedpit #os #A #H
March 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Six creepy thriller novels set by bodies of water, aka my favourite genre niche! 🌊

#BookSky
March 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Writers, have you ever given yourself ‘one last chance’ to make it? One last query. One last book. What happened next?

I want to hear your Last Chance stories!

#writesky #writingcommunity
March 18, 2025 at 5:55 AM
New pinned post!

🌊 A storm-buffeted island of folklore and superstition.

🌊 A writer grieving her father’s drowning death in an isolated lighthouse keeper’s cottage.

🌊 A cursed Mariner who will tear her apart to stop her learning the truth.

#WriteSky
March 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM