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cosmic mistake. once wrote a story called 'It's a Police Worm'. she/her. rep by @laurenbajek THE FACELESS THING WE ADORE page street 2026 🏳️🌈 #nooneisillegal
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vague girl summer is over it's time for screeching girl autumn
the island will finally be welcoming you in autumn 2025
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i told my housemate the vaccine knocked me out and he said "ah yes, set pfizers to stun" and friends, i am ANGRY
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Flashback to that time a girl wrote me a love poem and I assumed she'd given it to me to beta read and sent it back to her with notes
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tried to make pancakes but instead saw man-made horrors beyond my comprehension
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Wow way too many ppl identify with this 😭
Anyway as this is going around, if you happen to be an acquiring editor interested in the universal lesbian experience of joining a cult and becoming a vessel for a ravenous god, my horror novel is on sub now sooooo
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wait so encanto has "we don't talk about bruno" and luca has "silencio bruno"
is there just some bloke called bruno working for disney and what did he do to piss off all the scriptwriters
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update: i have informed my housemate and he denies this. he claims he just made finger guns and i "filled in the blanks"
i'm going to need some time to adjust to what this says about me as a person
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wow I did not expect this to get attention. im really not sure if I will tell him.
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Somehow 3 of the 4 people in this sleeper train compartment are writers. We're going to do a sprint. What is happening
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no panic but i'm going to be a published writer tomorrow
with a happy optimistic romance story [[[about bodysnatching aliens]]]
scrambled brain feelings
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@davideastUK
Thank you. I am now in the market for a sword.
Also nearly dressed entirely in black this morning so I could tell colleagues I was "in mourning for the words which didn't make the cut."
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Also for anyone who has spare coins or a second to share...
hey all! b__st if you can!!
given that utah is currently on track to pass HB0257 i’ve decided it’s not safe to remain here and am going to flee the state soon - if anyone has anything they can d0nate to help it would mean the world
cs is $kaleamililani and vnmo is the same!!!
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me, admiring my characters' relationships
they don’t have brains but still like to huddle next to each other which I find adorable
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are we doing this with our wips then?
because being vaccinated does NOT mean you can join a ghost hunting trip to an abandoned town where previous expeditions have met with tragedy and something very strange is lurking, please 👏 be 👏 responsible👏
being vaccinated does NOT mean you can travel to sweden with your boyfriend and his friends to attend one of his friends' rural hometown's fabled midsummer festival
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Do I get to do the boost thing? Ok read
@CMRosens
and
@sjwhitbywrites
for wtf eldritch drama and violent nerdy queer joy respectively, stream
@MyFathersFiles
when it comes out and check out donation links for palestine, colombia and india here
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as a bi ace, on this day, i am translucent. you may see me out of the corner of your eye, doing something really weird with your kitchenware. enjoy i guess
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Also ooop happy pride month, here's another good place for donations
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just got a short story rejection with really nice, complimentary and helpful feedback and an invitation to submit again in future. and right now that feels like a massive achievement?
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girls will literally lure you to a hidden commune and give you as a living sacrifice to a sleeping god rather than going to therapy...
#wiplift
(aesthetic by the excellent
@megbontra
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@lagunabayfables
IT SIMPLY DID NOT OCCUR TO ME THAT THERE WAS ANY OTHER REASON SHE WOULD SEND ME A POEM
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me: i am going to create a monster that is so horrifying
my beta readers: poor bb 🥺 he's trying his best ❤️ someone give him a hug😭
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i see your "meet cute" and raise you "meet horrific"
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ok so my name's on the goodreads page so i guess it's official: First Contact, my f/f romance short story (in SPACE with BODY SNATCHING ALIENS and STAR WHALES and DESSERT REFERENCES) is going to be published in Elixir by
@HansenHousePub
in 2022!
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just saw a tweet asking if twilight counted as gothic horror and misread it as "does twitter count as a gothic horror story" which i think is the real question
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Friends fear she and her EAT PRAY LOVECRAFT backpacker horror are now represented by
@laurenbajek
of Liza Dawson Associates
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Being a writer is feeling pure unrefined joy in waking up to a message from an alpha reader that starts with "I hate you".
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If you're a Christmas person, happy that.
If this is a tough time of year for you, big love and support.
If you're a confused spider trapped in a human house after having made a tiny nest in a christmas tree, fight on my friend.
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wifi issues in cafe, barista who looks about 18 comes over to help. "don't worry, i'm used to it," she smiles, "i have to help my grandma with this stuff all the time!"
if anyone wants me from now on i will be in the woods trying my hardest to be moss
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Yoga video instructor just said "say something kind and loving to yourself" and I, unable to comprehend that kind of fluffy positivity, panicked and told myself "you have teeth".
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Once a friend joked with me about moving to berlin. I took it personally, searched "ma courses in germany". now, four years, five countries, one counterfeit money smuggling incident, one stolen passport and one pandemic hiatus later, my masters thesis is bound and ready to go!
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Want to be a good fantasy writer? You need to travel, join an eerie small commune on an isolated island, commune with monsters, wake a dead god and wreak havoc upon the world
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Hey wow I just hit 500 followers. This
#writingcommunity
is crazy good.
Now I get to do a thing where I ask you all something? How about the places and worlds you write? Drop a GIF in the comments and share your WIP's setting because I want 😁
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giving my own books 2.5-star reviews on goodreads
"i was confused by the ending"
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i don't know how your days are going but my mother just said something i agreed with at lunch so my brain tried to say "true" and "quite" at the same time and friends, i looked straight at her and said "trout".
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it is my unfortunate duty to announce that instead of working on my new stories or beta reading my day has been spent reading the ms i found of the ya dystopia i wrote when i was 15
it has been an experience.
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not me deciding to submit to pitchwars at the very last minute i possibly can :)
just threw in my island story of monsters, cults and the tourists who really shouldn't love them
good luck to all of us ❤️
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everybody check your junk mail today friends, i took a quick look in mine and the first two emails in there were a short story contract and a not-un-positive query response. check your junk mail.
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sort of fascinated that i seem to currently be writing a book that has Scenes and Plot and Characters but does not feel like it actually has any kind of Story
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ok here is accountability thread for no ghosts. it is Real Now
🏙️a disaster-struck city
👻two generations of girls who speak to the dead
☠️a sinister force that links them across decades
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pitmad is tomorrow💀
1. mute me/
#pitmad
hashtag if pitches annoy you
2. don't like pitches - RT or comment. likes mean you might consider representing the book. if you're not a literary agent you might find this confusing and hard work.
3. you're all amazing let's crush this
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anyone who things horror novels are unrealistic should know that my mother once took me to a strange town, claimed i had been there before as a child, asked me if i remembered "the parade", and quietly sang along with the chanting of the people doing a ritual on the beach
I want to do this with horror novels. Anyone who thinks horror novels are unrealistic should know that when I was a kid I once woke up to an old lady stooped over the side of my bed
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explaining to short story beta readers that "it's like this because i tried to write romance then panicked and put in aliens"
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it's a cover with my name on it!!! i'm drunk this is wonderful
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me, developing setting for no ghosts: so there's this city and -
brain: the houses eat people
me: well, i was more going for -
brain: t H e H oUs eS eA t PE op l e
me: no but you see that's not
brain: the houses... are... pretty... and...
me: yes?
brain: eat... people...?
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concept: i have a big van. i drive around the world kidnapping my mutuals and putting them in the back of the van. it is full of pillows. i leave them in there for eight hours to get a GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP and bosses cannot complain, because its not their fault they were kidnapped
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and i am back in the trenches, friends
between that, jobhunting, possible phds and house hunting, send kind thoughts to my poor blood pressure whenever i receive an email from now on
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i do... trend
my name is hester (allegedly) and i write adult/na horror/fantasy. i have been told that my brand is "100% free-range organic horror" and it basically seems to combine lyrical creepiness with the restraint and realism of sharknado.
i have a face.
Author trend! 🙌
My name is Chelsea and I write Adult Fantasy that features reluctant heroes, sad immortals, and stories-in-stories (or other meta elements!). My debut, THE STARDUST THIEF, has all those things and comes out next year with Orbit!
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my mother doesn't know what cryptids are, and in trying to find out is just naming random things to me to see if they're cryptids or not. so far she's suggested the mari llwyd, jacob rees-mogg, and ants.
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horror cannot be in space
romance cannot be in space
sci-fi cannot be in space
space is banned. do not think of space. there is no nothing out there.
Does anyone really believe Scifi can’t be romance? I’m seeing people police
#kisspitch
pitches today, and considering Fantasy Romance is a whole subgenre, it’s ridiculous that anyone would assume Scifi Romance isn’t real. Some of us nerds like a little space with our kisses.
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so i'm april fools pranking myself and announcing a completely unprepared camp nano project
- 6 (i think) chaotic humans
- 1 reckless project
- 1 abandoned city
- 0 ghosts
- 1 author who told herself she'd use camp nano word counts to finish her thesis yet SOMEHOW
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💔broke and broken-hearted, backpacker aoife is perfect fodder for a cult and its predatory leader.
🌩️but when disaster strikes their isolated island and their apocalyptic prophecies start to look very real, she might be key to their survival - or their destruction.
#pitlight
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my writing me in real life
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ok so 2022 is a scary year because it's a year when my words are going to be in multiple places and you can see and/or hear them. i best deal with fear through making aesthetic threads, of course, so
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love how my nano novella is turning into "if i just make the writing pretty and unsettling enough i won't have to explain anything because people will just assume i know what i'm saying"
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i have a joke about ariadne [thread]🧵
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THE DEAD & THE DARK x ANNIHILATION
forty years ago, a girl who could speak to the dead discovered something monstrous haunting her city.
today, her reluctant ghost hunter granddaughter joins an expedition deep into the aftermath - where something is still waiting
#pitlight
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i want to join the writer/writing thing but i have lasted this long without any of you suspecting that i have a face and i'm not going to wreck that now
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really kind of offensive that i'm two-three scenes away from the end of my book and i'm expected to concentrate on my job that i do for a living
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She didnt bother to research the symbols, just got the tattoos for the aesthetic:
#dreamcatchers
, nordic runes, evil eyes. The untranslated glyph from that ancient temple seemed like a cool addition. Now she keeps waking up with soil on her lips and bones in her pockets.
#vss365
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so i've decided to try and read a book a week this year to make up for my reading slump in 2020 and i will try to tweet about it because what else is there
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alright friends. after a year in the trenches i've collected so many near-misses and so much useful feedback that, even though there are still fulls out, it feels like time for a Dramatic Redraft. time to return to an idyllic island, make new friends and wake hungry gods.
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literally nothing calls for an out of context line from island book but i can never not post this when i am working on this scene
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so we're doing wip threads huh? ok here is one
ISLAND BOOK:
status: querying
what: join a cult on a remote island and get over your breakup with eldritch rites! visit your hometown and have visions as you hunt for missing people! be a hungry sea skeleton!
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nobody's got time to wait around for good news to share a cool picture
meet island book's protagonist, aoife, who is, as usual, about to make a terrible life choice of some sort
art by the incredible
@jeannekmele
and look how good she did it!!!
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wow ok hi new followers
please be aware I will probably never tweet anything funny again. I mostly just either post snippets of stuff I'm writing or complain that I'm not writing anything.
it's nice of you to be here though and I look forward to disappointing you 😌
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wow my "i'll whatsapp and messenger my germany friends when i arrive in berlin and surprise them" plan really was flawless wasn't it
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never going to get tired of writing women who turn into literal monsters because their partners were rude.
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am i the only one who finds moose terrifying because Slightly Bigger Than Expected
like not overwhelmingly big, just bigger than expected, so it feels like reality's distorted and it's probably the moose's fault?
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why do my two wips both have villains whose name is short for william. what do i have against people called william
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just won family Christmas quiz game with the word "cannibalism". merry holidays friends
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LOOK HERE SHE IS I DID A COMMISSION
i am in love with
@sethpuertoluna
's art and he's done an amazing job with kivvy, my saucepan-wielding done-with-this-shit vengeful chef and i am crying
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i had been under the impression that we knew that the Cat that comes into our house sometimes has an owner and a home already. apparently nobody has solid evidence of this. i feel myself in increasing danger of Having A Cat
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a lot of this feedback is useful, but you can pry my food descriptions from my cold, dead, olive-oil stained hands.
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that weekend in paris when, in two SEPARATE and UNRELATED incidents, my laptop was destroyed by the police and i ended up in hospital after trying to break into a government building
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Oops OK I do have an aesthetic for
#pitlight
! Meet my new wip, a cosy english countryside town, a harvest festival, a missing boy and a vermicious secret
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alright here we go
may well be the last time but it's an excuse to make another aesthetic
i'll be pitching my crossover horror about monsters, cults and the tourists who love them tomorrow, and if you are not a publishing person pretty please do not like the
#pitmad
tweets!
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As my first act as someone with 1000 twitter followers I'm going to post this cat and lizard who are friends.
Then I'm going to try a baby
#writerlift
and ask you all what your favourite line in your WIP is?
Thank you all for being magnificent
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yesterday was a bit wild. thanks to everyone who RTd my pitches and hyped me up, and offered to help me hunt down legit likes in the chaos (I think I caught them all!)
hope it went well for everyone because i cannot wait to be preordering and screaming about your books ❤️
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"my child is coping well with this pandemic"
your child is writing two stories, one about a journalist who sells out to survive a global crisis and one about a rootless person trapped in a sentient house that persuades her that outside is too dangerous.
(yes i am that child)
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who am i not to jump on a trend?
if any editors are looking for an f/f contemp horror that advocates leaving your bf, joining a very normal Mediterranean island commune and raising monstrous gods, The Faceless Thing We Adore is on sub now and would love to meet you!
Not just agents, also editors! That was how I got my book deal for BETTER CATCH UP, KRISHNA KUMAR 🌷🫶🏻
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as someone who's both bi and asexual, i always feel the need to explain how my sexuality can exist and not exist at the same time. that's why this pride i'm partnering with That Feeling You're Being Watched But There's Nobody There!
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⭐️no plot just vibes
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️no plot no vibes just mindless screaming
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I have a short story trailer? I never had... that... before?
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Cant stop thinking about how yesterday my autocorrect turned "querying" into "worrying" and how accurate and ominous that feels.
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a small amount of nonsense allowed here as I opened my notes file and apparently my most recent note for no ghosts was simply "eaten by 80s decor"
thank you past hester for this helpful and coherent message that i really think is best we forget ever happened
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