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Savannah Benton-Smith
@savannahmbs.bsky.social
340 followers 84 following 160 posts
Horror author | she/her | BIPOC |
let’s freak each other out ✌🏽
rep: Rebecca Eskildsen @ Writers House
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Dude I am clocked in to the locked in factory with this new draft #bvm #helpingWIP
March 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
savannahmbs.bsky.social
Yes, I text in all caps. But not in a boomer-ish way. I’m literally always screaming. And I want my texting to reflect that.
February 21, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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person as a monstrous creature another monstrous creature a different creature
December 29, 2024 at 5:22 PM
savannahmbs.bsky.social
❤️WIP❤️After months of social exile, Noah receives an invite to a wellness retreat with the friends who ghosted her. Once there, she faces more than strained friendships because hidden beneath the sand, a monster waits. One that can’t let any of the woman leave the desert alive.
#WritingCommunity #bvm
November 22, 2024 at 3:44 PM
savannahmbs.bsky.social
Heading to a writers retreat this weekend which is a fancy way of saying I found the cheapest air bnb 3 hours from my house and I’m going to sit in it bleeding income until my book is done #booksky
November 21, 2024 at 5:56 PM
savannahmbs.bsky.social
So many new followers! 👋🏽👋🏽
I’m Savannah, I write atmospheric social horror in weird places with monstrous female leads. I’m currently working on a haunted house story about evil women, friendship, and revenge #bvm #horror
November 15, 2024 at 4:01 PM
savannahmbs.bsky.social
Haven’t been here in a bit. What’s the vibe?
July 21, 2024 at 2:49 AM
savannahmbs.bsky.social
don’t mind me I’m just making mood boards and editing my WIP and working a full-time job and I’m FINE

#writingcommunity #bvm #horrorbooks
December 7, 2023 at 7:56 PM
savannahmbs.bsky.social
what if I finish my new BLOOD WIP by Dec 31? What then?
December 6, 2023 at 6:37 PM
savannahmbs.bsky.social
bro these four days off work like, I’m coming back to myself like, I’m EUPHORIC like I feel like a human person and that’s terrifying that your job can melt away your sense of self that much…anyway back to the grind on Monday 🤪
November 25, 2023 at 11:12 PM
savannahmbs.bsky.social
the one thing I literally hate about drafting a new novel is that it isn’t sitting on my couch smashing Karlach’s “how about a kiss?” option over and over in baulders gate 3

#writingcommuntiy #bg3 #bvm
November 22, 2023 at 6:54 PM
savannahmbs.bsky.social
truly how do people work on multiple projects at once

#WritingCommunity #bvm #horrorbooks
November 20, 2023 at 8:16 PM
savannahmbs.bsky.social
how it feels to be drafting again

#bvm #WritingCommunity #horror #HorrorWritersChat 📚😱 #authors
Tabby cat sitting mid-yawn, but it looks like its yelling
November 9, 2023 at 1:03 AM
savannahmbs.bsky.social
ITS DRAFTING TIME BABEEEEE
November 6, 2023 at 11:54 PM
savannahmbs.bsky.social
I always feel so stupid reading a draft of my book and crying about it.

#bvm #WritingCommunity #horror #HorrorWritersChat 📚😱 #authors
November 5, 2023 at 4:20 AM
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Did some querying black out poetry to remind me of the good ol’ days

#bvm #WritingCommunity #horror #HorrorWritersChat 📚😱 #authors
November 3, 2023 at 9:29 PM
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*me frantically editing my author website aesthetic trying to decide between alluring/mysterious adult author vibes or literally just the decor from halloweentown*

#bvm #WritingCommunity #horror #HorrorWritersChat 📚😱 #authors
November 1, 2023 at 7:39 PM
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Photo of an orange cat sitting between two big red mushrooms with the text "sorry, I'm busy coming to terms with it all"
October 21, 2023 at 3:05 PM
savannahmbs.bsky.social
I need more #horror book recommendations. I need to feel something again. #bvm
October 28, 2023 at 12:27 AM
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Guess what #WritingCommunity and #BIPOC writers out there! We've got some pretty great news! We just want to take the time to announce our anthology!
We're partnering with Inked In Gray Press to create an anthology featuring stories by women of color!

wocwriterscircle.org/2023/10/24/w...
October 24, 2023 at 8:15 PM
savannahmbs.bsky.social
Friends and family: it’s so impressive you wrote a whole book. We could never do that. You must be so smart!

Me: *googles “rules for commas” for the sixteenth time today*

#bvm #WritingCommunity #horror #HorrorWritersChat 📚😱 #authors
October 24, 2023 at 3:24 PM
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Me: god what a great week to work exclusively on my line edits for my book. I’ll finish these in a heartbeat and be that much closer to achieving my dream of becoming a published author!

*One traumatized vampire calling me his little love*

Me: lol nevermind

#bvm #WritingCommunity #horror #bg3
October 19, 2023 at 12:06 AM
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Me about my novel: the prose is so tight, every word matters, how could I ever find superfluous words to cut for this draft?

Me 2 days in:

#bvm #WritingCommunity #horror #HorrorWritersChat 📚😱 #authors
October 14, 2023 at 9:34 PM
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#bg3 has me kicking my little legs off the side of the couch. like if Karlach calls me soldier one more time I swear I’m gonna divorce my husband
October 14, 2023 at 5:02 PM
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Wait in 2018, I submitted a terrible short story for review to a random Internet forum that told me it sucked (it did) and then five years later I wrote a book, got an agent, and now it’s the final edit before we go on sub and WHAT OTHER WRITING JOYS ARE IN STORE FOR ME?!?!

#bvm #WritingCommunity
October 12, 2023 at 4:39 AM