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Kirsten E Bell
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I write 💫 witch books💫

Querying "Anthology of the Woods"

Writing "Clara"
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Anthology of the Woods 🪕🔮🌔

A coven’s chance encounter w/ a rock band might not be as coincidental as once believed when Brigid, a witch trying to protect her farm, meets her match in the band's frontman. There will be a showdown of fame and magic so don't play the wrong chord...

#QuestPit #Q #S
The text on the picture says "And yet the human blood that kept my heart beating on this earth was like poison. The catalyst of heartbreak. A drug, misdosed. There's a girl with her eyes closed laying in a flower field.
August 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
kbellwrites.bsky.social
ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS

Witchy like The Once and Future Witches
Rock n Roll like Daisy Jones and the Six

⚠️Warning⚠️ Don't play the wrong string when it comes to battles of fame vs magic...

#QuestPit #Q #Speculative
Anthology of the Woods is written across what looks like an album cover. The artist is attributed to The West End. Three women's silhouettes are dancing in a field at night. There's an advisory label and a barcode as well. The back of the album cover. There are 5 tracks in order titled: White Anemone, Burn Hole, Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, I Only Asked for Help, The Pearl. There are 3 pictures on the right, one of two people kissing, one of a woman with a sword and one of a hand reaching out for a ghost like figure. all are in black and white.
August 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
kbellwrites.bsky.social
Reading a gothic thriller at the pool and the fence posts are GIVING.

So far so great: The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths

#booksky
July 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
kbellwrites.bsky.social
ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS

A witch tale with fangs, fitting nicely on a shelf next to "The Once and Future Witches" & "Garden Spells".

✔️Cottage Core
✔️Twist Ending
✔️Sisterhood
✔️Morally Gray FMC
✔️Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
✔️Atmospheric
✔️Feminism
✔️Dancing ghosts in a theater 👻

#BluePit📖 #Q #Spec #A
July 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS
#BluePit📖 #Q #A #SP

A coven’s chance encounter with a rock band might not be as coincidental as once believed. Brigid a witch trying to protect her family farm will meet her match in the band's frontman. Secrets, spells & rock&roll will ignite a showdown between fame & magic.
A woman lying back in the water with a line from the book reading: "I rested my lips alongside his ear and whispered, "run".
July 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
kbellwrites.bsky.social
CLARA
#BluePit📖 #Q #YA

🐁🔮A witchy reimagining of the Nutcracker for fans of the -ber months🌜❄️

The ballet never mentioned Clara was a witch. At this year’s Yule Ball, Clara and a rag-tag trio of misfits will be traveling a lot further than the Sugar Plum Forest to save their magical kingdom.
Woman holding lantern with text from the book: By the time the three were pulling themselves onto one of the lighted sailboats, the calls of Captain Nicholas and Mother Ginger were soft in the night wind. The lighthouse was free of its cursed shackles, now peacefully sinking to the bottom of the Aegean Sea.
July 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for hosting this event, #SmallPitch!!!

'Clara' will be headed off on submission now to an amazing Indie Press right where she's always wanted to be 🖤
July 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS
#Speculative #A #Q

Coven of witches with secrets 🤝 Rock band with secrets

Brigid (the green witch) with a revenge plot 🤝 Frontman with a selfish goal

The Once and Future Witches 🤝 Garden Spells

The Craft 🤝 Taylor Swift's Folklore

#PlaylistPitch
July 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
kbellwrites.bsky.social
ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS has received feedback about its lovely lyrical prose and beautiful atmosphere but this is the character visual board that built the cast :)

#UnhingedPit #Q #Speculative
July 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
kbellwrites.bsky.social
Love this album! It was written about a coven of witches the band met once along Pictured Rocks. Kinda spooky but I can tell Banks is obsessed with one of them. Maybe too obsessed?

#UnhingedPit #Q #Speculative
An album cover that depicts the silhouette of 3 women outside and the album cover is Anthology of the Woods by the West End. The back of the album cover. It says Anthology of the woods then 5 song names and a description.
July 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS
🌜The Craft🌛 scored by 🕯️Folklore🕯️
#Q #SwiftiePitch

A cozy tale of folklore with fangs that would shelf nicely with "The Once and Future Witches" & "Garden Spells".

✔️Cottage Core
✔️Twist Ending
✔️Sisterhood
✔️Morally Dark Gray FMC
✔️Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
✔️Atmospheric
✔️Feminism
June 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Framing this. Crawling out of "maybe pile purgatory" inch by inch.

#writingcommunity #amquerying
June 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Michigan cherry coffee + editing 📝
A perfect morning.

#writingcommunity #authorsky
May 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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#WIPSnips #AmQuerying #MagicalRealism
May 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
kbellwrites.bsky.social
ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS

A cozy tale of folklore with fangs, fitting nicely on a shelf next to "The Once and Future Witches" & "Garden Spells".

✔️Cottage Core
✔️Twist Ending
✔️Sisterhood
✔️Morally Gray FMC
✔️Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
✔️Atmospheric
✔️Feminism
✔️Dancing ghosts in a theater 👻

#QuestPit #Q #MR
May 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
kbellwrites.bsky.social
ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS
#Q #MR

A cozy tale of folklore with fangs, fitting nicely on a shelf next to "The Once and Future Witches" & "Garden Spells".

✔️Cottage Core
✔️Twist Ending
✔️Sisterhood
✔️Morally Gray FMC
✔️Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
✔️Atmospheric
✔️Feminism
✔️Dancing ghosts in a theater 👻

#QuestPit
A album cover mock up that have three women's silhouettes dancing in a field. It says The West End - Anthology of the Woods and has album stickers on it. The back of an album cover with the title "Anthology of the Woods" followed by 5 songs - White Anemone, Burn Hole, Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, I Only Asked for Help, and The Pearl. Then it has the book's hook: A Nashville rock band believes their luck has turned around when they meet a sisterhood of magical women who seem to turn their voices to honey and their fame to lightning, but unfortunately for them, one of those sisters, Brigid, is on a mission of revenge against man-made magic such as fame and they have just become her last straw.
May 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
kbellwrites.bsky.social
A rock band believes their luck has turned around when they meet a sisterhood of magical women who seem to ignite their fame. Unfortunately, one of those sisters is on a mission of revenge against man-made magic such as fame & they have just become her last straw.
#questpit #Q #MR
For pictures, depicting two running girls in the woods, a table of tools and herbs, a man singing to a woman, and a woman floating in the water. The words say: And yet the human blood that kept my heart beating on this Earth was like poison. The catalyst of heartbreak. A drug, misdosed.
May 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
kbellwrites.bsky.social
❄️CLARA❄️
A witchy Nutcracker retelling for folks who love the "-ber" months

#YA #F

With new characters at every turn and dreamscape-like scenery, "Clara" is drenched in the fabled lore of the holidays. A treat for those who love magic, ghosts, and gingerbread.

#LuckyPit #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA
Six pictures showing scenes from manuscript Clara including a gingerbread, Indian woman, lighthouse, frozen pond, snowy castle, and southern home. The text on the pictures reads: She dreamed of Parrish, and the way his tan skin looked drenched in fire light. She dreamed of everyone she could save, and everyone she could hurt with this gift from Rune Drosselmeyer.
March 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
kbellwrites.bsky.social
❄️CLARA❄️
A witchy Nutcracker retelling for people who love the "-ber" months.

#YA #F

✔️ Winter Solstice/Yule
✔️ Coming of Age
✔️ Cozy Mystery
✔️ Folklore
✔️ True YA
✔️ Magical woodland creatures (otters and frogs carry notes between witches through a creek, sooo...)

#LuckyPit #popuppitA #popuppit
six pictures of the winter soltice and yule celebrtions.
March 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
kbellwrites.bsky.social
ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS
#Q #MR

A rock band thinks they’ve hit the jackpot when they meet a group of magical women who seem to turn their 🍀luck🍀 around. But as magic & fame grow, so does greed. The power struggle will lead one to the limelight, losing all others to the woods.

#LuckyPit #popuppit
There's a water way surrounded by trees with the silhouette of a woman in the water. The words on the picture say "Ishan opened a window for her and off flew the Egret. A diamond charm in the silver chain of clouds."
March 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
kbellwrites.bsky.social
❄️CLARA❄️
#YA #F #Q

A necklace that promises power over life & death is stolen at the Yule Ball and a guest has been found dead. Clara, a witch, and a rag-tag trio of misfits will embark on a world-wide hunt for the necklace before those who practice darker magic find it first.

#luckypit 🍀 #popuppit
A woman holds a lantern on the seas side. It is dark. The text on the picture says "By the time the three were pulling themselves onto one of the lighted sailboats, the calls of Captain Nicholas and Mother Ginger were soft in the night wind. The lighthouse was free of its cursed shackles, now peacefully sinking to the bottom of the Aegean Sea."
March 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
kbellwrites.bsky.social
🕯️Clara🕯️ has hit the query trenches and I'm officially shaking in my boots. I love this story. I hope others will love it soon too!
#amquerying #queryingtrenches #writingcommunity
Background image of woman with lantern next to a body of water at night. The words across the image are in white and say: Clara, YA, Fantasy, A necklace that promises power over life and death is stolen at the Yule Ball, and a guest has been found dead, leading young witch Clara and a rag-tag trio of misfits on a world-wide hunt for the necklace before it falls into the wrong hands.
February 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
kbellwrites.bsky.social
ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS

Bookshelf buddies:
📚 A Dark and Secret Magic 📚 The Lost Apothecary 📚

A rock band from Nashville thinks they’ve hit the jackpot when they meet a group of magical women who seem to turn their luck around... Oh, were they wrong.

#Q #MR #QuestPit
February 13, 2025 at 2:27 AM
kbellwrites.bsky.social
❄️CLARA❄️ A witchy retelling of The Nutcracker
#YA #My #F (60k words)

With new characters at every turn and dreamscape-like scenery, "Clara" is drenched in the fabled lore of the holidays.
A delicious treat for those who find murder mysteries to be cozy.

#W #QuestPit
an old lighthouse on a gloomy ocean with the words "But may I ask you to consider who this magic is best suited for? Because somethings it's easy to fall for the lie we've told ourselves for too long."
February 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
kbellwrites.bsky.social
ANTHOLOGY OF THE WOODS
#Q #MR

A cozy tale of folklore with fangs, fitting nicely on a shelf next to "A Dark & Secret Magic" & "The Lost Apothecary".

✔️Cottage Core
✔️Twist Ending
✔️Sisterhood
✔️Morally Gray FMC
✔️Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
✔️Atmospheric
✔️Feminism
✔️Dancing ghosts in a theater 👻

#QuestPit
February 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM