Holly Riddle
@thehollyriddle.bsky.social
👩🏼💻 Travel, food and lifestyle journalist and copywriter
📚 Author rep’d by Triada US Literary Agency
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📚 Author rep’d by Triada US Literary Agency
👱🏻👩🏼🐶🐶🥃
Twitter/IG/Threads: thehollyriddle
Time for me to crawl out from under my rock to post the books I read in the last month. 😅 Loved Diavola but my fav was likely Somewhere Beyond the Sea. Chauncey fan club for life. 🐙 After reading one (1) book in Feb., I'm back on pace to exceed my goal of 50 books read in 2025.
April 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Time for me to crawl out from under my rock to post the books I read in the last month. 😅 Loved Diavola but my fav was likely Somewhere Beyond the Sea. Chauncey fan club for life. 🐙 After reading one (1) book in Feb., I'm back on pace to exceed my goal of 50 books read in 2025.
Hard to believe it's already Feb! Jan's reads included two potential comps for my soon-to-be-on-sub horror WIP, two book club books, and some (not so) guilty pleasures. 📚
February 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Hard to believe it's already Feb! Jan's reads included two potential comps for my soon-to-be-on-sub horror WIP, two book club books, and some (not so) guilty pleasures. 📚
Just realized my horror WIP can be basically summed up as “two women descend into madness over 200 pages, only for them to find out in the last 50 pages that they weren’t really mad and the men in their lives suck.”
January 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Just realized my horror WIP can be basically summed up as “two women descend into madness over 200 pages, only for them to find out in the last 50 pages that they weren’t really mad and the men in their lives suck.”
I read soooo many good books this year and, as someone who’s historically struggled to crack 50 books/year, I’d say this was a big win. Here are a few of my favs!
December 31, 2024 at 6:36 PM
I read soooo many good books this year and, as someone who’s historically struggled to crack 50 books/year, I’d say this was a big win. Here are a few of my favs!
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The professional novelist must constantly struggle with the most profound questions of existence, such as: 'have I just spent 6 months writing a pile of shit?'
December 17, 2024 at 10:50 AM
The professional novelist must constantly struggle with the most profound questions of existence, such as: 'have I just spent 6 months writing a pile of shit?'
Oh god. The details. "Can we just take a moment to appreciate Holly’s profound ability to turn every mundane task into a gothic horror?" 😂
December 1, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Oh god. The details. "Can we just take a moment to appreciate Holly’s profound ability to turn every mundane task into a gothic horror?" 😂
A tale of two birthday buddies in three photos. 🎂🎉 (One of us turned 2 and the other turned 32, if you were wondering about the age gap. 🤫)
November 27, 2024 at 5:41 PM
A tale of two birthday buddies in three photos. 🎂🎉 (One of us turned 2 and the other turned 32, if you were wondering about the age gap. 🤫)
A divorcee with crippling anxiety acquires a remote compound that was the site of a spree killing in 1902 and must prevent history from repeating itself.
Pitch your story in a sentence.💙📚
November 27, 2024 at 2:20 PM
A divorcee with crippling anxiety acquires a remote compound that was the site of a spree killing in 1902 and must prevent history from repeating itself.
Every time I see a snippet from a friend's WIP: Amazing! Beautiful! Gorgeous! What prose! 😍
Every time I look at my own WIP: What hot trash is this?? 🤮
Every time I look at my own WIP: What hot trash is this?? 🤮
November 20, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Every time I see a snippet from a friend's WIP: Amazing! Beautiful! Gorgeous! What prose! 😍
Every time I look at my own WIP: What hot trash is this?? 🤮
Every time I look at my own WIP: What hot trash is this?? 🤮
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Writers continuing to write despite being fed up with the publishing industry and giving up in disgust
November 18, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Writers continuing to write despite being fed up with the publishing industry and giving up in disgust
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This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 PM
This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.
What I read in Oct! I'm a week late, but this week has been what it's been. Lots of great reads last month, but I think Starling House pulled ahead just a smidge and was my overall fav. #amreading
November 10, 2024 at 11:06 PM
What I read in Oct! I'm a week late, but this week has been what it's been. Lots of great reads last month, but I think Starling House pulled ahead just a smidge and was my overall fav. #amreading
New planner, new plans. (Bc everyone knows the key to fixing your life is just a really organized planner. 😌)
October 27, 2024 at 11:01 PM
New planner, new plans. (Bc everyone knows the key to fixing your life is just a really organized planner. 😌)
Monday nights are best spent carving pumpkins in front of the fireplace. 🎃🖤
October 15, 2024 at 1:00 AM
Monday nights are best spent carving pumpkins in front of the fireplace. 🎃🖤
Ppl are saying this is the place to be for the #writingcommunity now (and the 🧵 place is just too toxic), so re-intro time (and a hope to post more)!
I'm Holly, freelance writer by day, fantasy/horror writer by night. Current WIP is a horroromance. On sub with a fantasy set in 1910s NYC. 👩💻
I'm Holly, freelance writer by day, fantasy/horror writer by night. Current WIP is a horroromance. On sub with a fantasy set in 1910s NYC. 👩💻
October 6, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Ppl are saying this is the place to be for the #writingcommunity now (and the 🧵 place is just too toxic), so re-intro time (and a hope to post more)!
I'm Holly, freelance writer by day, fantasy/horror writer by night. Current WIP is a horroromance. On sub with a fantasy set in 1910s NYC. 👩💻
I'm Holly, freelance writer by day, fantasy/horror writer by night. Current WIP is a horroromance. On sub with a fantasy set in 1910s NYC. 👩💻
Happy birthday to me. Spending the first days of 31 in beautiful, snowy Lake Placid. (Also, look at my birthday book haul!)
November 28, 2023 at 12:18 AM
Happy birthday to me. Spending the first days of 31 in beautiful, snowy Lake Placid. (Also, look at my birthday book haul!)
Happy Halloween, from Weird Barbie and Michael. 🖤🎃
October 31, 2023 at 11:54 PM
Happy Halloween, from Weird Barbie and Michael. 🖤🎃
I have a Pinterest board. I have a playlist. I have a pitch and an outline. I think I’m NaNo-ready, friends.
October 22, 2023 at 9:31 PM
I have a Pinterest board. I have a playlist. I have a pitch and an outline. I think I’m NaNo-ready, friends.
If you know me, you know I’m a big podcast person and, every year, This Paranormal Life is my most-listened-to show. Worth the five-hour drive to Boston. 🛸
October 17, 2023 at 5:24 PM
If you know me, you know I’m a big podcast person and, every year, This Paranormal Life is my most-listened-to show. Worth the five-hour drive to Boston. 🛸
Today is a day for finding tiny ghosts in bottles, baking pumpkin cupcakes, drinking pumpkin beer, and carving up some, yes, pumpkins. Spooky season truly is the superior season. 😌🍂
October 15, 2023 at 12:46 AM
Today is a day for finding tiny ghosts in bottles, baking pumpkin cupcakes, drinking pumpkin beer, and carving up some, yes, pumpkins. Spooky season truly is the superior season. 😌🍂
Thought I was going to spend my off week “being super productive,” but instead, I just thought a lot, took some naps, baked some pies, enjoyed spooky season — which is all productive in its own way. 🖤🍂
October 2, 2023 at 12:24 AM
Thought I was going to spend my off week “being super productive,” but instead, I just thought a lot, took some naps, baked some pies, enjoyed spooky season — which is all productive in its own way. 🖤🍂
Very productive revising day. 🎉 I feel like my brain just works best once fall hits. 🍂
September 16, 2023 at 9:17 PM
Very productive revising day. 🎉 I feel like my brain just works best once fall hits. 🍂
Have you heard the news?! Round Table Mentor is launching later this year! So pleased to be a part of this wonderful, inclusive, community-focused program! Writers, stay tuned for more info and get those manuscripts ready! Applications open on Oct. 31 (aka, the best day of the year!).
August 25, 2023 at 1:45 PM
Have you heard the news?! Round Table Mentor is launching later this year! So pleased to be a part of this wonderful, inclusive, community-focused program! Writers, stay tuned for more info and get those manuscripts ready! Applications open on Oct. 31 (aka, the best day of the year!).
Agented writer friends! I’m writing a blog for ✨ something special ✨ on the realities of being on sub/what to expect after you sign with an agent. So tell me — What do you wish you’d known before going on sub?
August 13, 2023 at 6:50 PM
Agented writer friends! I’m writing a blog for ✨ something special ✨ on the realities of being on sub/what to expect after you sign with an agent. So tell me — What do you wish you’d known before going on sub?
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*gotta go fast*
August 10, 2023 at 1:36 AM
*gotta go fast*