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Cheryl_Ann78
@cherylannwrites.bsky.social
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Mum, writer, navigator of ADHD & OCD and unapologetic addict of cheese 🧀 In the query trenches while I work on the next book!
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Cheryl_Ann78 @cherylannwrites.bsky.social · Jan 27
If young Sheldon and two high school girls escaped to outer space, working together to get home would be smooth sailing, right?

Add an impossible villain, murderous wildlife and a coming if age adventure, and you have Escape to Thera.
#2025Pit #MG #SF #F #Own #Neurodiversity
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gemma-smith.bsky.social
🔪 Ada - a medium & fraud, turns to murder, determined to create the perfect ghost

🪦 Harriet - terrified of spirits, cursed with the ability to hear them

☠️ When her best friend is murdered, Harriet must face her fear & seek out the dead to find the killer

✨Dual POV #YouDeservepIt #a #hf #q soon
A collage of Victorian-era images surrounding the words 'when the dead talk, secrets don't stay buried.' The images include: a woman holding a candle, a policeman finding a body, four images of seances, a woman stalking another woman in the street, and a slum.
January 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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LEGENDBORN X AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER

When fighters start disappearing from an underground elemental tournament, a sixteen-year-old participant with wind powers must uncover the tournament’s secrets before she loses a match and shares their fate.

#2025Pit #YA #F #Jewish
A collage featuring a hooded figure standing in an underground tunnel that has the four elements on the walls and floor.
January 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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stpolishook.bsky.social
TENDER IS THE FLESH + THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS

As a wild human, Rachel’s flesh is considered a delicacy. Captured & sold at market, her fate now rests on her ability to convince her not quite human buyer that she is worth more alive than on his dinner plate #2025Pit #Q #A #SF #H #SpecFic
Creepy farm vibe mood board with butcher knives mixed in with dark mood pics of farm animals
January 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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elainebuckner.bsky.social
Jane Eyre retelling

Luna Elliot, once Baby Jane Doe, finds refuge as Thornfield Hotel's concierge, and falls for the pensive hotelier E. Rochester. But as love blooms, secrets, vanishing staff, and a fatal plunge ignite suspicion threatening her happiness.

#2025PIT #A #LF #R #H #T #DR
January 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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#2025pit #a #f #h

KJC + EVEN THOUGH I KNEW THE END

Scotland, 1925: a thief, a sorceress, and a demon hunter travel to England to steal a demonic grimoire.

The thief and the sorceress enjoy a steamy affair, but he pines for the hunter. As feelings clash, betrayals threaten to become apocalyptic.
A moodboard containing three images of people in 1920s clothing, a skull emitting smoke, a library, an Edinburgh row house, and two occult sigils
January 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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rkduncan.bsky.social
Elin thought she was elected to reform the nation, protect workers, humble the nobility and break the power of the slaving charterlords. Instead she's alone at the top, politically dead and dodging assassins sent by the prophetic WHETHER MEN as they launch a coup they know will win.
#2025Pit #A #F
January 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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cwmcguinness.bsky.social
Hellbound Bastards is a completed, 32k-word weird western novella that combines the stark violence of Blood Meridian with the nightmarish cosmic terror of The Dunwich Horror.

It's also got:
🔫Gunfights
📕An Occult Tome
💰A Bank Robbery
🕯️Black Magic
🩸And blood... lots of it

#2025pit #A #H
cwmcguinness.bsky.social Chris W. McGuinness @cwmcguinness.bsky.social · Jan 27
A notorious outlaw is saved from the noose by a wealthy industrialist. In exchange for his life, he must defend an isolated desert town from an otherworldly eldritch horde. Hellbound Bastards is a gritty cosmic horror novella set in the Old West. SERGIO LEONE + HP LOVECRAFT
#2025pit #A #H
January 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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The Gathering is mandatory by Jasper Carrion’s decree. Villagers compete to partake in the Feast, a four-hour eating orgy, for those lucky enough to snag RING balls matching two sets of numbers selected at random, desire can be enjoyed in excess. A HUNGER ARTIST X THE RUNNING MAN #A #F #H #pit2025
Buffet
January 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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storiesbysamuel.bsky.social
As a child, Emma found her grandmother in the woods, crying over something awful yet unseen. The memory has been lost for years but Emma’s return to her grandmother’s house brings the horror back, drawing her into a world of witchcraft and the occult.

#A #H #Novella #2025Pit
January 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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THE HONEY WITCH x LATE BLOOMER

A disabled witch hires a butch grocer to help her failing apothecary, but in falling for the grocer, the witch angers the ghost haunting her shop, and, oddly, her half-satyr best friend.

The Witch and The Grocer 🍇🐝

#RM #A #YA #DIS #ownvoices #2025Pit
January 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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victoriajayneoh.bsky.social
🐝 Alarra, single witch with chronic pain, needs a helper.
🧑🏻‍🌾 Robin, butch grocer, needs a second job.
💁🏻‍♀️ Trixie, half-satyr bff, doesn’t like this.

For Alarra, working with Robin is a dream that turns into a nightmare when a ghost starts tormenting her apothecary.

#2025Pit #RM #LGBT #DIS #A #Q
Witch looking lovingly at a grocer in a dimly lit apothecary
January 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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While visiting her father, Edie Grayson falls in love with his touristy seaside town. Unfortunately, there's a dark undercurrent here. Edie has to find out: what is wrong in Bludeye Beach?

DRESDEN FILES X GRAVITY FALLS

👧Character driven
💕Slow burn romance
👻Monster menagerie

#2025pit #A #Q #H #F
A collage with text overlaid to read My Summer in Bludeye. The images are: 1. A close up of a girl's eyes with red X's over them. 2. The silhouette of a girl standing in front of a bright green light. 3. A wooden sign reading Bludeye Beach est. 1818. 4. A cliff overlooking an ocean. 5. Two preteens are looking down at a phone. All of their eyes are covered in red X's. 6. A black and white image of a hand covered in unidentified black substance, with the word help written over it.
January 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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lahuntlovesbooks.bsky.social
#2025Pit 👀
susielindau.bsky.social Susie Lindau @susielindau.bsky.social · Jan 27
A sentient house can be tricky, but night terrors and jump scares are tolerable when a struggling author acquires talent.
When the House attacks, a stalker threatens, and his sister attempts a rescue, they must confront secrets, their dark past, and both monsters to survive
#2025Pit #A #T #H
Alt POV
Walking in the woods, a spooky house, moonlit night, hooded man, hiker, ghost at the bedside.
January 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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lahuntlovesbooks.bsky.social
#2025Pit 👀
sarahgwrites75.bsky.social Sarah G, Epic Romantasy debuts Spring 26 @sarahgwrites75.bsky.social · Jan 27
🖤 Labyrinth x Aladdin 🖤
Imprisoned in a fae dungeon, a girl is offered salvation by the cruel enemy king who has every reason to want her dead after her father cursed him. She has to decide if she should trust the evil fae she's falling for, or betray him and win a crown of her own #2025Pit #YA #RF
Eerie mood board in shades of grey showing dark fairies, rams heads, a girl with a sword and a rolling sea
January 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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sandersjacob.bsky.social
Stalked by Mothman and plagued by visions of his dead sister, inept cowhand Thomas turns to witchcraft. But magic comes at a terrible price. Outriding accusations of serial murder is easy… Resurrection, on the other hand, may cost Thomas his soul.
RED RABBIT x WIZARD AND GLASS
#2025Pit #H #W #YA 🏳️‍🌈
A newspaper from 1878 featuring a solar eclipse.
January 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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lahuntlovesbooks.bsky.social
#2025Pit 👀
laurarainewrites.bsky.social Laura Raine wrote a book 🫣 @laurarainewrites.bsky.social · Jan 27
Spencer’s Green is overflowing with narcissists who would go to extreme lengths to keep their secrets and Reed Blake would know since he’s been lurking around their windows for weeks.

He doesn’t care about the residents though, his sites are set on one man …Asher Stewart.

#2025pit #A #S
January 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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#2025Pit #F #Q

OUABH x ODW x TOG

In a land on the brink of magical renewal, a young woman braves the hidden dangers of her kingdom to stop a mysterious rot from spreading.

💐sentient land w/no shores
👑insect queen
🌱disgraced heir hungry for revenge
🫐charming blue stranger
January 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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caitduffy.bsky.social
COME CLOSER x MAUVE FLY x DIONYSUS

When talentless lead actress Bea learns the director wants to replace her with an understudy, she holds a Dionysian ritual in the woods.

Something answers.

Bea transforms.

And the show must go on.

#H #A #2025pit
Moodboard for Caitlin Duffy's horror novel The Theatre of Cruelty. It is on a tan background. Moving clockwise, there is an image of a moody forest, a photo of a young white woman looking in the mirror, an oil painting of the maenids, a black and white portrait photo of Antonin Artaud, a photo from the stage of a theatre where the red seats are empty and the only thing on the stage is a lit ghost light, a side photo of a sculpture of Dionysus's head, the covers of my three comps: Come Closer, Mauve Fly, and Black Swan, an oil painting of Dionysus overseeing a feast.
January 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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elainebuckner.bsky.social
Crimson Peak X Lisa Jewell

As the new concierge, Luna's dark past & future collide in a romance with the enigmatic hotelier, but dark secrets, vanishing staff, & a fatal plunge from the penthouse balcony scorch her romance & threaten to unravel her fragile sense of self.

#2025PIT #A #LF #R #H #T
January 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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CHAMBER THE ROUND

A supernatural noir. Monty and Liza are enforcers trying to catch a man who killed one of their own. Only the fugitive has help: gods aiming to sow chaos. Can they survive long enough to reverse the events set in motion?
CITY ON FIRE mixed with Celtic myth.
#2025pit #A #H #T
January 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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50 years ago, a man in a hand-painted skull mask killed 10 people in Saddleton, TX, then vanished into the night.

Now, three desperate teens are going to find out what really happened to the Saddleton Skull, and come face to face with a killer in...NIGHT OF THE SKULL.

#2025pit #H #YA
January 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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MIDNIGHT LIBRARY X DOCTOR WHO

When a book bearing his name crashes through David’s window, he’s thrust into a battle between cosmic authors shaping reality and the leaders of Fate, who want to replace them with AI. Soon he has to ask himself: Is he human—or an ultimate weapon?

#2025pit #A #SF #F
January 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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When a Y2K doomsday cult kidnaps an old friend, 13yo Jackson must team up with his ex-80s rocker uncle and his punky best pal to solve the mystery before the clock strikes midnight on NYE. From PDX to the Cali redwoods to the AZ desert. An original riff on J. Bellairs' tropes.
#2025Pit #MG #M #H #S
January 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM