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Renae Rhoads
@renaerhoads.bsky.social
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thriller writer • birthed 3x hellions • overthinker • music lover • enchanted by horror tropes • WriteMentor '23 mentee
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It's rough putting yourself out there (hello fellow #amquerying authors) but it's so damn nice to have friends read your work, give you valuable feedback, & understand your art.

Love this rad agent guide @ambucsaru.bsky.social put together 🩵🩵
YA SPEC HORROR - Youth Without Youth is a discussion of beauty standards. It explores how the rich, the beauty industry, & the influencers they employ perpetuate these standards at the expense of working-class people & for their own gains. (words on flowing blue silk background) Tropes: body horror, commentary on the beauty industry, influencers as a vessel of control, eat the rich, dark & twisty mystery. Comps: house of hollow, Jennifer’s body, natural beauty, wilder girls, whalefall, the substance. (White background with indigo stained & seeping lips in middle) Pitch: when a high school senior contracts a virus that turns her blood blue, she must infiltrate the elite beauty industry & sort through the lies spread by their influencers to find a cure before she dies like the rest of those infected. (White background with dark blue blood splotches) Youth Without Youth - YA horror (blue soaked hand on teal background 🩵)
May 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Pausing on writing to create art I can wear. My procrastination is on full display but I can probably cobble together something presentable in a day 🤞
Pile of assorted fabrics and notions: black lace, pink & black striped chiffon, pink velvet shoes
April 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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ROUGE x HOUSE OF HOLLOW
Hell is being a teenage girl—and that’s before your blood turns a surreal shade of blue & to save yourself from a grisly death, you must steal the cure from a toxic beauty corp
💙decaying youth
🩵bioengineered beauty
🩶the kids aren’t alright
🖤eat the rich
#YA #SPEC #H #QuestPit
9 square moodboard soaked in blue hues: a distraught eye in center with golden glitter tears, woman in blue clutching neck, sapphire flowing silk fabric, wrist with black veins, jean jacket with “we see what we want” scrawled in black, back of woman in blue dress twirling against sky backdrop, blue drops bleeding into water, white flaking skin treatment, blue coiled snake.
February 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Dropping this here before I continue to doomscroll:

I wrote another book! I'll be scouring the MSWL posts later this week--but if any #litagents are looking--here is my #agentguide

#amquerying #YA #WritingCommunity
An agent’s guide to: Youth Without Youth 4 slides, all with dark backgrounds in black and blue hues with an ethereal snake silhouette and bone colored starbursts / splashes of fuchsia color Slide 1 /4 Intro: Hell is being a teenage girl -- and that’s before your blood turns a cerulean shade of blue & the teens in your town start dropping like flies - a YA spec horror Slide 2 /4 Comps: Four book covers: House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland, Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang, Whalefall by Daniel Kraus, & Wilder Girls by Rory Power also for fans of: Jennifer’s Body, the Substance, & Alexander McQueen Slide 3 /4 The Pitch: Fashion-obsessed Imogen wants nothing more than to leave her teenage years behind, if only it were that easy. Still mourning her mother, her fashion dreams in NYC are shattered when her perpetually drunk dad “borrows” her college savings. But after witnessing her classmate’s sudden death, Imogen’s not sure she’ll even make it to graduation. Because the mystery ailment that killed him is circulating through her own veins, turning her blood a surreal shade of blue. As Imogen’s condition decays, she’s entangled with a cohort of friends—and her ex—in a quest for survival. But everything changes when she finds out there’s an antidote. She’ll do whatever it takes to get it, even if that means sneaking into a bioengineering skincare corporation and stealing it from an affluent society hellbent on perfecting eternal beauty. Because if she fails, Imogen will stay seventeen forever—as the next gruesome casualty. Slide 4 /4 Tropes: Moodboard with moody blues, sad girls, and deteriorating beauty used as a trope map for: hell is being a teenage girl, corrupt corporations, youth is forever, midwest wasteland, quest for a cure with the ex that ghosted you, beauty obsessed, olivia rodrigo meets the Replacements, eat the rich, & the teens are dying.
February 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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WHALEFALL x HOUSE OF HOLLOW
Imogen’s youth died the day her mom did, but she can’t cut and run from her small town until she figures out what mystery affliction is killing her peers—especially when her own blood mutates to a freakish shade of blue.
#2025Pit #YA #SPF #H
Moodboard with moody blues, sad girls, and deteriorating beauty used as a trope map for: hell is being a teenage girl, corrupt corporations, youth is forever, midwest wasteland, quest for a cure with the ex that ghosted you, beauty obsessed, olivia rodrigo meets the Replacements, eat the rich, & the teens are dying.
January 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
renaerhoads.bsky.social
ROUGE x HOUSE OF HOLLOW
Hell is being a teenage girl—and that’s before your blood turns a surreal shade of blue & to save yourself from a grisly death, you must steal the cure from a toxic beauty corp.
💙decaying youth
🩵bioengineered beauty
🩶the kids aren’t alright
🖤eat the rich
#YA #SPF #H #2025Pit
9 square moodboard soaked in blue hues: a distraught eye in center with golden glitter tears, woman in blue clutching neck, sapphire flowing silk fabric, wrist with black veins, jean jacket with “we see what we want” scrawled in black, back of woman in blue dress twirling against sky backdrop, blue drops bleeding into water, white flaking skin treatment, blue coiled snake.
January 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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As I emerge from the longest nights and the creative stasis that is December, I want to highlight my little Saturnalia story published this year -- it's revenge served on a silver platter 🖤🖤

Looking forward to dedicating more time to short form this year.

#amwriting #horror #writingcommunity
Tenebrous Antiquities anthology The Verdigris Ball
December 28, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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I absolutely adore the cover for this novel by @noreennanja.bsky.social 🩵🩵🩵 Perfect summer read for 2025
The Summers Between Us by Noreen Nanja
December 6, 2024 at 9:57 PM
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Sometimes your libby holds come in at just the right time- this one is fun & gritty at the same time, full of women helping women, & has a killer ending. And also, like the raddest grandma??
Highly recommend for current times #booksky
VenCo by Cherie Dimaline
November 15, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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Introductions? I'm searching for all my writing friends! 🖤🖤

My current WIP is a speculative YA horror in the vein of House of Hollow x Jennifer’s Body
November 11, 2024 at 3:58 AM