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Sarah Rowlands @sarahauthor27.bsky.social · 14d

I'm finally querying this YA Folk Horror!

#amquerying #YA #horror

Sarah Rowlands @sarahauthor27.bsky.social · 14d

I read FANTASTICLAND earlier this year and I'm still thinking about it. Never read anything like it. The very idea that it "could happen" was the most horrifying truth. LOVED LOVED LOVED THIS BOOK! Thank you for writing it!!

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Sarah Rowlands @sarahauthor27.bsky.social · Aug 17

Thank you!!!

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Kayla is 🧜🏼‍♀️revising🧜🏼‍♀️ @kaylafoster.bsky.social · Aug 16

Project Mermaid is currently 90k and is an adult contemporary fantasy.

🌊Found Family
🧜🏼‍♀️Touch her and die
🌊Caught between two worlds
🧜🏼‍♀️Slow burn

#posterpitw #c #f #a

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E.M. Kerkman | 🏴‍☠️☠️🔥 @emkerkman.bsky.social · Aug 16

#PosterPit #W #NA #F #R #PiratesWIP

During her world tour, Captain Holloway is captured by pirates. After encountering an assassination plot, a magical curse, an unlikely romance, and an imminent war, she finally takes a side. The wrong side.

It's all Captain Falcon's fault.

The text in the image reads: "Magic, mutiny, romance, and a six-month deadline. What could possibly go wrong?" "Dual POVs, sentient oceans, vengeful ghosts, magical curses, enemies to lovers, and lovers to enemies." "He has a curse to break. She has everything to prove." "Sail By Dawn, a new-adult fantasy novel by award winning author E. M. Kerkman." The background image is of a sailing ship on a stormy sea with dawn light shining from behind it. It is a paining titled "Bird of Dawn" by Montague Dawson.

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Sarah Rowlands @sarahauthor27.bsky.social · Aug 16

Ahhh thanks!!!!!

Sarah Rowlands @sarahauthor27.bsky.social · Aug 16

Thank you!!!!!

Sarah Rowlands @sarahauthor27.bsky.social · Aug 16

After Hildy endures days of fear-charged challenges to rescue her ungrateful sister from becoming a living but soulless porcelain doll, Hildy succumbs to her most violent instincts and transforms into someone else entirely - Krampus.

#posterpit #H #F #Q #YA

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Sarah Rowlands @sarahauthor27.bsky.social · Aug 16

BELLADONNA x Outlander

An old Irish curse transforms 20-yr-old Estella into a monstrous plant at night. She must find a cure in this hidden, enchanted glen before her sinister doctor uses her as a science experiment.

#posterpit #Q #F #A

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Sarah Rowlands @sarahauthor27.bsky.social · May 7

An #AgentsGuide to COAL IN THE GUT

SMALL FAVORS x HOUSE OF HOLLOW

Fantasy-infused YA horror inspired by the Germanic legend of Krampus, about two sisters struggling to escape a once Candyland-like village now overrun by cannibal children.

#questpit #Q #YA #H

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Jacy Sellers ✨🖤 @jacysellers.bsky.social · May 7

🎶 Battling her post-rehab life and paranoia, a radio station assistant must uncover how song requests are tied to a string of nightclub murders in Myrtle Beach before she’s the final track on the killer’s playlist.

#A #Q #T #QuestPit

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Jacy Sellers ✨🖤 @jacysellers.bsky.social · May 7

THE ONLY ONE LEFT x HOW TO SELL A HAUNTED HOUSE

🪦 family funeral home in chaos
📸 viral scandal with severed limbs
🛒 skull-covered oddities shop
⚰️ grief, obsession, & one very stolen corpse
💀 Southern Gothic unraveling

#A #Q #H #T #MY #QuestPit

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Sarah Rowlands @sarahauthor27.bsky.social · May 7

An #AgentsGuide to COAL IN THE GUT

SMALL FAVORS x HOUSE OF HOLLOW

Fantasy-infused YA horror inspired by the Germanic legend of Krampus, about two sisters struggling to escape a once Candyland-like village now overrun by cannibal children.

#questpit #Q #YA #H

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Sarah Rowlands @sarahauthor27.bsky.social · Mar 17

🫐BELLADONNA x OUTLANDER☘️
🖤1912 Gothic Romantasy
🌿BodyHorror plant monsters
🌸CottageGore

When Estella discovers an enchanted glen with old Irish curse, she must hide her monstrous symptoms (and her interest in the Irish) from her husband before they become his medical experiment #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit

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Sarah Rowlands @sarahauthor27.bsky.social · Mar 17

SMALL FAVORS x HOUSE OF HOLLOW

👹 Villain origin story
👹 Dual POV
👹 Body #horror

A reimagining of the Germanic legend of Krampus, the half-🐐/half-man beast, but it's a teenage girl

Two sisters struggle to escape a Candyland-like 🇩🇪 village now overrun by cannibal children

#YA
#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit

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Sarah Rowlands @sarahauthor27.bsky.social · Mar 17

SMALL FAVORS x HOUSE OF HOLLOW

👹 Villain origin story
👹 Dual POV
👹 Body #horror

A reimagining of the Germanic legend of Krampus, the half-🐐/half-man beast, but it's a teenage girl

Two sisters struggle to escape a Candyland-like 🇩🇪 village now overrun by cannibal children

#YA
#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit

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Sarah Rowlands @sarahauthor27.bsky.social · Mar 17

Gorgeous!!!

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Mike Mizov @mizov.bsky.social · Mar 17

After returning to her family’s crumbling estate and finding the gardener dead, a reluctant heiress partners with his son to break a generational curse before it claims her too.

🕯 Gaslight, Gatekeep, Ghosts
🔥 If the House Doesn’t Kill You, Love Might

#LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #PopUpPit #H #A #Gothic

Nineteen-year-old Lottie Bradbury is called home to her crumbling family estate with an ultimatum: marry or let the Bradbury name die. But in a post-war world where old traditions are crumbling and women are claiming new independence, Lottie refuses to be controlled.

Her introduction is disrupted when the gardener is found dead, his skull shattered on the manor steps. His son, Arthur, warns Lottie that the house is hungry, that it killed his father—just as it did her mother a decade ago. And it’s not finished.

Determined to seize control of her own fate, Lottie digs into the manor’s past, only to realize the house has other plans. Strange footsteps at night. Whispers slithering through the halls. Shadows shifting where none should be. Arthur insists the manor is alive, feeding on the sins of her ancestors, that her family is cursed. But he’s not the only one keeping secrets, and the deeper she digs, the harder it is to know who to trust.

THE LAST HEIR OF BRADBURY MANOR is a slow-burn gothic horror set in 1919, blending the creeping dread of The Hacienda with the sentient menace of Starling House. A tale of inheritance, obsession, and a house that refuses to let go. The manuscript is complete at 96,000 words.

Comps for The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor:

Starling House: Dark inheritance, Family secrets, Sentient house

The Hacienda: Unresolved grief, Psychological unraveling, Supernatural dread

Crimson Peak: Decaying grandeur, Gothic vibes

A mood board for The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor with...

A decaying, messed up sitting room
A spooky staincase with a girl walking
A girl climbing out of a well
A book on fire
A cozy Edwardian dinner party
A spooky gothic dinner party

Text that reads: breaking the curse means losing him forever. Embracing it may damn her soul

Tropes for The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor

🖤 Manor With a Mind
📖 Cryptic Diary
💀 Generational Blood Curse
🕯 Gaslight, Gatekeep, Ghosts
🏚 Slow-burn
🖋 Arranged? Meetcute? Ghostly Trauma Bonding?
🔥 If the House Doesn’t Kill You, Love Might
🕰 1919 but Make It Haunted
⚰ Who Needs a Dowry When You Have a Death Curse?

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Jennifer Luce @jenniferluce.bsky.social · Mar 17

A mortal woman teams up with the God of Light to put a stop to a power-hungry shapeshifter. But as she falls for his charms and nears uncovering the enemy's identity, she's forced to choose between love or duty—before the world & everyone she loves—falls to darkness
#LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #F #RF #NA

3 by 3 grid of pictures: a woman in a forest with a giant wolf; a silhouette of a woman; an image of a hand with puppet strings; a woman reaching out to light; two hands touching; a woman surrounded by a phoenix; art of a winged person saving someone falling; silhouette of couple kissing in the sun; a crown and dagger

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Sarah Rowlands @sarahauthor27.bsky.social · Mar 17

🐝SMALL FAVORSxHOUSE OF HOLLOW 🐜

🪓YA folk horror
🇩🇪Germanic legend
🐐Villain origin

Enduring days of fear-charged challenges to rescue her sister from becoming a soulless porcelain doll, Hildy succumbs to her violent instincts and transforms into someone else entirely - Krampus.

#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit

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Sarah Rowlands @sarahauthor27.bsky.social · Mar 17

🫐BELLADONNA x OUTLANDER☘️
🖤1912 Gothic Romantasy
🌿BodyHorror plant monsters
🌸CottageGore

When Estella discovers an enchanted glen with old Irish curse, she must hide her monstrous symptoms (and her interest in the Irish) from her husband before they become his medical experiment #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit

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Sarah Rowlands @sarahauthor27.bsky.social · Mar 17

This is UNREAL. LOVE!!!

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Sarah Rowlands @sarahauthor27.bsky.social · Jan 19

This is SO INCREDIBLE.

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Sarah Rowlands @sarahauthor27.bsky.social · Dec 2

Woot woot!!! You can do it!!

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