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Lilith Murphy || Writer
@lilithwrites.bsky.social
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27 || She/They || 📍 Boston
Writer of psychological thriller, horror, and things that go bump in the night. Autistic, queer, and going nowhere 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
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Lilith Murphy || Writer @lilithwrites.bsky.social · 21d
BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN x SHARP OBJECTS

When Alex's sister goes missing, there is nobody in her small town she can trust. She must cut through lies, secrets, and her own paranoia if she wants to save the little that's left of her family.

#GhostPit #A #W #T #H #LGBTQ2S+ #OWN
An agent's guide to "Dissonance," an adult psychological thriller by Lilith Murphy Comps The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Amazing sister dynamic Paranoid protagonist/Unreliable narrator Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn Domestic thriller Complicated family dynamics Family secrets dragged into the open Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll FMC (Female Main Character) who isn’t believed by men Imperfect victims The Pitch Three years after the death of their parents, college dropout Alex Doyle must learn to take care of herself and her teenage sister Charlie. When Charlie disappears without a trace, Alex realizes she doesn’t know as much about her sister as she thought. Now, she must completely throw away everything she thought she knew-about her sister and their hometown-if she wants to find Charlie alive. Tropes Unreliable narrator Paranoid protagonist Stalker Kidnapping Betrayal & Revenge
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For better or for worse, Alex will always step in to protect someone who cannot protect themselves. Even if she can't win the fight, she'll always take the hits.
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What's your main character's greatest virtue? #WritingPrompt
November 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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It was long overdue, but I finally finished Babel by R.F. Kuang last night.

If you haven't read it, I cannot implore you enough to give it a try. It is so relevant and impactful.
November 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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NAUSICAÄ X FF7

Nature is decaying, nobles are hoarding magic, and demons prey on everyone. Blessed with magic that could restore nature, a young woman fights against various factions to save a world that she might not be meant to save.

#Ghostpit #F #A #Q
A foggy street. A vintage woman. A gas mask. Legs on a rocky ground. A man and woman. Nature in the sunlight.
October 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Once a silent shadow in her father’s court, a princess is thrust into a trial designed to forge her into a ruler capable of cruelty tempered by intellect—and when ancient magic awakens in her veins, she can no longer tell whether her rise will save the kingdom or damn it.

#GhostPit #A #F #Q
Title of my book, TRIAL OF HEIRS The background is a red sky and a gothic-looking castle My pitch: A discarded princess endures a deadly trial to claim her tyrant father’s throne—but as her power grows and her humanity slips away, she must face the truth: to destroy the monster who made her, she may have to become one herself. With betrayal lurking in every shadow, she is forced to walk a path where survival and monstrosity are inseparable—and the crown may demand more than her heart can bear. Photos of crying eyes and woman walking into fire Opening Lines: “I was a woman of import who was of no particular importance to anyone. A princess in the back of banquets, the daughter of a family who never sought her out, a person with no companions. Perhaps it was sad, but more than anything, it was dreadfully dull.” Reviews and comps: “Wow! What a grim and utterly emotive tragedy! This story had me feeling everything and left me completely hollowed out by the end.” - Professional Beta Reader 1 “I have no words. This story is brilliant.” – Professional Beta Reader 2 “When I finished, I had to just sit in the dark for a while, staring at the ceiling, empty inside.” – Journalist Friend “First book to make me cry in a while.” - Fiancé “It’s so... violent!” – My Mom COMPS: Far Heir by Lucia Ashta, The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri, The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart, & The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid
October 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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A Light in the Attic x Where the Sidewalk Ends x Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

There's things that will give you a fright. Things that will scare you right out of your pants.
Things that go bump in the night.
Are you sure you want to give this a chance?

#W #A #PT #GhostPit 👻
A black background with spider webs and hanging spiders at the top. Below the webs is the title Which Witch is a golden yellow color with orange trim to look like light in a pumpkin. There are also the words A collection of spooky season poetry & short stories. Below the words are 2 pictures. On the left is a witch holding a staff in a yellow hued forest and field. On the right is a Jack-o'lantern. Below those two are 3 pictures. Left to right is an orange hued skull, a zombie woman in a white dress by a business, and a willow tree in a graveyard at night lit by yellow lights from the background.
October 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND x WILLOW (dark and whimsical!) 🐉🧙‍♀️🎪

SO FAR AWAY: fantasy meets group therapy as six patients vanquish their inner demons in a shared simulation.

#ownvoices #ghostpit #A #FA #querying #agentsguide
October 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Hide and seeker x Mayan myths
Ixtab, Mayan goddess of Death, haunts a little Mexican town, dragging people to Xibalbá, the land of the dead. She's got Gustavo, and his sister Alondra would do anything to save him... even descending to hell
#Ghostpit #YA #H #OWN #POC #Querying
Woman with a jade armor, and a mask of Death, and a penacho
October 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Spirited Away x Shutter Island

Reality and fantasy blur when an anonymous invitation sends a burnt-out chocolatier spiraling to hunt down a serial killer she thought she made up as a child.

🥀Found family
🥀Feminist
🥀Ghosts

🪻Mental health rep
🪻Disability rep
🪻LGBTQIA+

#GhostPit #C #A #F #T #H #G
9x9 board of photos (top left to bottom right): dark rose bush, dark blue woods at night with fog, quote that reads, “I learned about death by being alive… or maybe I’ve tried it myself.” Starting second row: Closeup of a dragonfly wing, a girl floating in dark water with white flowers, hands reaching up from a dark lake with lily pads, a quote that reads, “we were strangers bound by a shared past, entangled in the present, with no promise of a future.” Forget-me-nots, a man and a woman dancing against a starry sky The same image from before with arrows pointing out to show tropes from the story which are: found family, haunted woods, past repeats itself, dual timeline, ghosts, repressed memories, investigation, and strong female characters. Two new images to replace the quotes from the previous board: a dark field of flowers in a forest tinted blue, a woman’s hands and body submerged under water reaching out.
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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PERCY JACKSON WRITTEN BY TARANTINO

A skeptical FBI is on the case of gory cannibalistic murders without knowing the culprit he's hunting is an angry Greek god - and his new partner is that god's mother.

#A #SP #T #H #MM #M #GhostPit
Dark red background of smoke, book cover in front, "What happens when a god goes on a killing spree?"
October 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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ADULT SIX OF CROWS WITH GHOSTS

Jack’s sworn to protect the dead, so when a book on harvesting magic from ghosts falls into the wrong hands, he’ll stop at nothing to steal it back. His crew has a few more scruples. The masked serial killer offering to partner up? Less so.

#GhostPit #F #A #Q
October 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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🔥 WHAT will GROW from the ASHES of our fallen civilization 🔥

🕸️ a #Post-Collapse novel of psychic powers and nurturing community
🔮 journey through the tarot across the former US
💀 facing death and the ghosts of the past while thriving the apocalypse

#A #Q #Spec #SFF #Ghostpit #hopepunk
moody moodboard with pictures of urban decay and plants growing through, swamp, fire, bridges, and a Death tarot card I drew titled "What rises from the ashes" with death on a moped elemental magic visions survival skills climate fiction #clifi indigenous futurism plant medicine meditation wilderness permaculture neotribalism community backpacking post-apocalyptic hopepunk
October 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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#GhostPit #W #Spec

Severance x PIRANESI x THE GARDEN

How far would you go to hide the person you used to be?

⚜️botanical/psychological horror
⚜️epistolary
⚜️moral decay
⚜️unidentified FMC
⚜️literary-leaning

art: giuseppe arcimboldo

🍓👒🪴🕰🪑
fruitwip poster by tyler stasi fruitwip pitch and moodboard fruitwip themes and comps
October 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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When a lonely stained-glass artist is invited to restore a set of windows depicting the haunting story of Tristram and Isolde, he must reassemble the fractured pieces of his memory before a malevolent creeper destroys his last chance at love. 👻

#GhostPit #A #G #T #Q
An image of a woman with her head cropped out and a grisly montage of a human heart run through with flowers and a ribcage over her chest, surrounded by twisting vines. Text reads: Mexican Gothic X Severance, Woodbine.
October 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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After witnessing a murder by a man who bears her former face, a trans girl who transitioned by her DNA being changed from male to female uncovers a sinister cloning scheme and must expose the culprits to stop further abuse of trans people. #GhostPit #YA #SF #Q #agentguide
October 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE

Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag.

#GhostPit #A #DS #SF #W
Made from non-AI free stock images. This image is a book cover design for a novel titled "Happy Death Inc." by B. Van Bodegom. The cover is divided into three distinct horizontal sections: 1. Top Section: Features a cartoonish blue sky with white clouds and a bright sun. At the top, a tagline reads: "How much would you pay to die with a smile?" The word "HAPPY" appears in large, playful, hand-drawn-style font, partially overlapping the sky background. 2. Middle Section: A photograph of a deceased man in a suit, lying in a casket. He has an exaggerated smile on his face, almost unnaturally wide and clean, suggesting artificial enhancement or post-mortem alteration. Overlaid on this image is the word "DEATH" in the same large font as the previous word. 3. Bottom Section: A cartoon city skyline in pastel tones, similar in style to the top sky background. The word "INC." is overlaid prominently in the same large font. At the very bottom, in smaller capital letters, it says: "A Novel by B VAN BODEGOM"
October 30, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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THE HONEY WITCH X LATE BLOOMER

A disabled witch hires a butch werewolf grocer to work in her failing apothecary. But when she and the grocer fall in love, a ghost torments the shop! The witch must solve the haunting to save the town and her new hot gf.

#ghostpit #A #FR
The witch and the grocer 78k sapphic cozy fantasy romance The romance Witch x werewolf Butch x femme Ownvokces heds rep First time Open door spice Alarra Thorne Robin Hart The pitch Alarra thorne is a broke, disabled, single witch getting evicted from her failing apothecary. On a commiseratory night out with her half-satyr bff Trixie, Alarra meets Robin Hart, a half werewolf butch grocer wanting a second job thanks to the spreading friit blight. After seeing alarra collapse at work, Rlbin ahrees to work with her despite the low pay. Comps The homey witch Late bloomer The very secret society of irregular witches Legends and lattes
October 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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A teen outcast from a secret line of Irish plant magicians must harness newfound powers to protect herself from a poison-wielding ancestor who hunts her family across time.
🍄 Plant magic
🌿 Poisons + elixirs
💌 Romance subplot
🎂 Magical baking
🚪 Portal to another realm
#amquerying #GhostPit #ya
Door in the Fernwood: In this magical Irish bloodline, poison runs deep. When sixteen-year-old Quinn puts on an ancient ancestral ring, it shatters the protective binding spell her family cast at birth—awakening clairvoyant powers she should have inherited from her Irish magical bloodline. But the ring also makes her visible to Neris, a Victorian sorceress who hunts Quinn to steal the ring. Hidden away in an Oregon enchanted forest with extended family, Quinn must master her powers before Neris destroys not only her, but their entire family tree. Portal to another realm, plant magic, elixirs and poisons, romance subplot, magical artifacts, time travel, magical baking Quinn gripped her camera and leaned forward, her shins pressing against the greenhouse ladder. Face to face with her majestic corpse flower, she held her breath as its infamous, putrid odor spilled from the curling burgundy folds. After years of careful cultivation, she couldn’t afford to miss a single stage of its first bloom. The camera’s shutter clicked one final time as she aimed into its central chamber. Satisfied with her shots, she climbed down and switched on the exhaust fan. Through the greenhouse glass, she watched her elderly neighbors on their back deck, gossiping as usual, completely unaware of the olfactory surprise heading their way. Right on cue, Vera’s voice rang out. “Woo-ee! Who died?” she screeched, sniffing the air. “Nobody croaked,” her husband Artie grumbled as he sipped coffee from his John Deere mug. “It’s that young girl next door. You remember she invited us over to look at some big, stinky flower tonight?” “Well, I’m not goin’. Bet you I’d pass out if I got any closer,” Vera said. “You know her mother keeps her locked up in that backyard doing the strangest things. It’s just not normal for a girl her age.” Although the comment stung, small-town judgments like this only fueled Quinn’s retreat into her own backyard utopia, where she propagated plants from all over the globe—the carnivorous, poisonous, endangered, the beautiful, the ugly, and the common. She sketched the rare or interesting ones—charcoal drawings lined the interior walls of her garden shed wherever she found a blank space. She collected their seeds, dried their leaves, made teas, salves, and medicinal remedies.
October 30, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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When a freak storm wrecks his island’s passenger steamer, sparing only a strange girl believed to be one of the monstrous Finfolk, a grieving musician must uncover who she really is before more of his people die. 👻

#GhostPit #A #His #M #H #Q
Image of a woman dressed in black looking out over a cliff. A rotting skull and seaweed motif bleeds from the left side. Text reads: The Ballad of Agnes Day, The Sirens X The Lost Apothecary.
October 30, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴 | characters

ㅤꨄ︎ alistair ꨄ︎

a sacrifice for the soul, alistair would give anything to keep elsie away from the devil

#ghostpit #Q #A #G #H #HF
October 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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SO LET THEM BURN x Captain America: The Winter Soldier

two best friends are forcibly separated. one learns to become the Dragon Queen and the other has her memories wiped and becomes an assassin known as the Flameheart. what happens when their paths cross again?

#GhostPit #W #YA #RF #LGBT
October 30, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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GRIM PORTENTS

HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE X CONSTANTINE

A man is murdered by a hell-beast on his wedding day. Now, with the help of the reaper who collected his soul, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell if he wants to return to the life he was robbed of.

👻 #SP #F #H #PN #OWN #GhostPit
Grim Portents cover featuring a skeleton hand holding a feather and emerging from an open book. The title is on a burning banner that envelops the feather and a large beast looms over it all. At the top, the tagline reads: Welcome to the first day of the end of your life… "I HAD ALWAYS TOLD MYSELF IT WAS A FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION, THE MIND PLAYING TRICKS. IT WAS JUST A SHADOW. BUT NOW THE MONSTER HAD BEEN GIVEN A NAME, AN IDENTITY. IT WAS REAL." Bill Baker wants nothing more than to marry the woman he loves, but when his wedding is interrupted by a rampaging hell-beast, his life is thrown into disarray. Desperate for a second chance, he will do anything to set his future back on track. Now, with the help of a soul-collecting reaper named Sonny, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell, in order to earn back the life that was stolen from him and prevent the oncoming end of days. Faced with the choice between what is right and what is easy, Bill may have to sacrifice all he holds dear for one last shot at life. Black and white sketch of characters Bill and Sonny. Bill is a dark featured man in a suit and kind of a Mark Ruffalo vibe. Sonny is a rotting corpse man with a cardigan. Ad for Grim Portents, featuring a print copy of the book and an ebook on an iPhone. A QR code that takes you to my website and the words “Scan to learn more about debut paranormal fantasy novel Grim Portents” below it. Under that, it says “Available online anywhere books are sold!” And above it all is the tagline “Welcome to the first day of the end of your life”
October 30, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN x SHARP OBJECTS

When Alex's sister goes missing, there is nobody in her small town she can trust. She must cut through lies, secrets, and her own paranoia if she wants to save the little that's left of her family.

#GhostPit #A #W #T #H #LGBTQ2S+ #OWN
An agent's guide to "Dissonance," an adult psychological thriller by Lilith Murphy Comps The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Amazing sister dynamic Paranoid protagonist/Unreliable narrator Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn Domestic thriller Complicated family dynamics Family secrets dragged into the open Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll FMC (Female Main Character) who isn’t believed by men Imperfect victims The Pitch Three years after the death of their parents, college dropout Alex Doyle must learn to take care of herself and her teenage sister Charlie. When Charlie disappears without a trace, Alex realizes she doesn’t know as much about her sister as she thought. Now, she must completely throw away everything she thought she knew-about her sister and their hometown-if she wants to find Charlie alive. Tropes Unreliable narrator Paranoid protagonist Stalker Kidnapping Betrayal & Revenge
October 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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The Front Bottoms are perfect for my favorite little crashout MC 🥰
October 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Good luck to everyone participating in DV Pit today! I'm not pitching, but I'm cheering you all on!
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October 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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I'm realizing 30k words into my manuscript that my story would be so much more effective in first person rather than third... wish me luck you guys.
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September 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM