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Mariann Evans
@mevanswrites.bsky.social
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Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 writer of YA mysteries that champion fat, queer and neurodivergent girlies. 🩷💜💙 Undiagnosed but pretty sure. Probably either baking, playing video games, or screaming into the void.

Represented by Hannah Andrade of Bradford Literary.
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lowkey never thought I'd reach this point on a draft again but A GHOST OF A CHANCE is complete!

Now just a few random scenes to add in, a quick edit pass, and then it's away!
August 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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It’s me and my murder mystery inspired earrings against the world 🔪
A woman with large purple glasses and a black top sits on a sofa. She is covered by a blanket. She is wearing a pair of knife-shaped earrings.
August 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Coffee shop writing is fast becoming my favourite!
A laptop open to a Google doc on a coffee shop table. A hot chocolate in a blue and pink ombré mug sits beside it, full of cream and two toasted marshmallows
January 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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AND THEN THERE WERE NONE x queer SCOOBY DOO

When five friends find themselves locked in a mysterious manor with the body of an eccentric puzzle master, they must play their way through the manor’s riddles and puzzles to escape with their lives.

#W #M #LGBT #agented #BluePit 📖
A nine block mood board showing, in order: blood stained converse shoes, bisexual pride pins, a woman wearing a “sounds gay I’m in” t shirt, a creepy Manor House, a newspaper clipping of the word murder, jigsaw pieces, a woman bending down to give a black cat a stroke, a blood stained key, and close up of several people shoes all standing in a circle
January 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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LIFE IS STRANGE x sapphic CEMETERY BOYS

When Addie discovers the ghost of Erin, a murdered girl tethered to a local lighthouse, the two must solve a decades old mystery before time runs out and Erin disappears… forever.

#W #M #LGBT #agented #BluePit 📖
A nine-block moodboard with overall dark, gritty vibes. I wanted her to kiss me on a white background, a girl sitting and staring out an open window at night, a tape player with modern day headphones attached, a hand reaching out of a dark ocean, "this isn't fucking over" against a fiery background, a lighthouse in the middle of a dark ocean, waves at night, a ghost standing in the forest, "I thought we'd have more time" in red font against a white background
January 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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For Day 2 of #BluePitHype, two moodboards! The one on the left is for my YA mystery with Life is Strange vibes, and the one on the right is for a super-secret new YA mystery project that I'll be drafting over the next few months.
A nine-block moodboard with overall dark, gritty vibes. I wanted her to kiss me on a white background, a girl sitting and staring out an open window at night, a tape player with modern day headphones attached, a hand reaching out of a dark ocean, "this isn't fucking over" against a fiery background, a lighthouse in the middle of a dark ocean, waves at night, a ghost standing in the forest, "I thought we'd have more time" in red font against a white background a nine block moodboard with neon/techy vibes. A keyboard lit up by puple light, "touch her and you'll burn" against a white backdrop, "stream starting soon" against a black background with stars, the legs of two girls as they embrace, "currently offline" in faded, glitchy writing, two girls standing with their backs to the camera, a close up of an iphone with an unknown caller, "shut up" "make me" on a white background, a purple streaming setup.
January 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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No but this is literally me 😂 I always look at mine compared to like the glorious ones other people make and I feel like that one Pingu meme
January 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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It's the shortest (and messiest!) WIP I've finished in a long, long time, but my sapphic ya mystery has a (mostly complete) first draft.

Now comes the fun bit! ❤️
a screenshot of the word count on Google Docs that shows 233 pages and 66,089 words
January 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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First book of the year polished off and now onto the NetGalley gems I’ve been saving. Very excited for this one by the lovely @paulagleeson.bsky.social!!
January 4, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Comfy and cosy and ready for my first read of the year! Asako Yuzuki’s Butter!

The only New Year’s resolution I’ve made this year is to try and read a little bit every night before bed, so let’s hope I can keep it up!
A paperback copy of BUTTER. A yellow book with a cow in the middle and bloody fingerprints.
January 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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I didn’t reach my 2024 reading goal but here is my #storygraph summary anyway!
A screenshot from StoryGraph showing various 2024 reading stats. First book read was Give Me a Sign, last book was Under the Surface. Longest book was As Good as Dead, shortest was Poyums. 5-star reads include Yellowface, Good Girl Bad Blood and Silent Sister
December 31, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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I’m not even joking when I say this is probably my greatest achievement all year #HiddenBooksGame
November 14, 2024 at 2:03 PM