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Raven Youngblood - Author

@ravenized.bsky.social

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📚Author- 📈Marketing Exec- 👩🏼‍💼Small Business Owner- 🌶️Neuro-Spicy - ☕️Coffee Addict Currently #amQuerying Gravewater- 83k Gothic Erin Brockovitch Currently writing Catalyst: The Helm of the Awakening- Dystopian Cyberpunk Pirate Adventure

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Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 13

#bluepit #a #hs #q #amquerying

GRAVEWATER

In a forgotten desk in a dusty attic, Narcie Fulton discovers something bigger than pests and permit problems hiding in the renovation of Gatewood Manor.

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Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 13

#bluepit #a #hs #q #bluepit📖
GRAVEWATER

84,000-word historical suspense novel with a gothic undercurrent.

GRAVEWATER is Erin Brockovich by lamplight: the atmospheric tension of Rebecca meets the character-driven mystery and dual timelines of The Secrets of Rose Briar Hall.

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Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 13

Fifteen years after a deadly power plant explosion, odd things are happening in the isolated town of Charon. When quiet disappearances escalate into a gruesome crime scene, Hollis Werner discovers that her sister may be next and time is running out.

An Abundance of Caution

#bluepit #a #w #sp #h

Four pictures. One of an eerie abandoned bike, one of something creepy and backlit, one of a rusted power plant tank that reads ‘safety before productivity….always!’ And one of smoke stacks with creepy blue haze. The title “An Abundance of Caution” is in the middle in white font.

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Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 13

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The Catalyst: Helm of the Awakening

Pirates of the Caribbean X Hunger Games

⛵️Enemies to lovers
🌶️Neurospicy representation
🏴‍☠️High-stakes pirate crew
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ positive representation
🏋️‍♀️Revolution and a powerful woman

(And my first ever boat art 😉)

A red sailed brigantine ship drawn by Raven Youngblood

Seiren Westfall, Captain of the Catalyst, is in the business of pirating people for the resistance.
Science has reached a new evolutionary milestone and people that were once labeled neurodivergent are beginning to shape their instinctual advantage. A man with ADHD can develop his brain to have super-human perspective. A charismatic woman can train her skills to own a room. A person with autism can grow to solve impossible equations.
And the World Council can’t let that happen.
As more people begin to show new and powerful skills and threaten the ironclad control of the government, they are quietly tucked away and labeled “Maladaptive”. With each new law they are being systemically wiped from the face of history.
Going undercover and infiltrating Council facilities, the crew of The Catalyst is on a mission to rescue as many Maladaptives as they can and bring them into the resistance. The Captain yearns for a peaceful life at sea but her sails are filled with the winds of revolution. She must answer its call– risking her ship, her crew and her humanity– or watch the world sink to the depths around her.

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Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 13

#bluepit #bluepit📖 #hs #a #q #amquerying

GRAVEWATER

She can’t rest until the sins of a small town reach the light of day.

He must climb out of the depths of grief and madness to save a man accused of murder before it’s too late.

There is a haunting secret buried at the bottom of The Hill.

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Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 13

#bluepit #bluepit📖 #hs #a #q

Rebecca x The Secrets of Rose Briar Hall

💀 Mysterious Illness
🪦 Love Beyond the Grave
⏳ Dual Timeline
🪶 Haunted Letters

Elle goes searching for funding for a children's library and instead finds a sinister secret so dark even the dead refuse to rest.

Vintage corner designs with the words Gravewater by Raven Youngblood, historic suspense completed at 84k words

Tropes with spooky looking backgrounds. Haunted estate, unreliable narrator, woman in a man’s world, buried evidence, doomed romance

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Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 13

I just spent three hours setting up my dystopian pirate adventure book series in Scrivener! I love a good parallel but my goal is to be done with the zero draft by October 1 when I leave for my cruise.

I have 8700 words in and aiming for 78000.

Let’s do this!

#amwriting #wip

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Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 12

#amwriting #pantser #writer #pirates

Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 11

The magical thing about writing books is that there can never be too many of them.

The supply and demand is always balanced.

So watch what everyone is doing, genuinely cheer them on and be inspired on how you can improve. You’ll get better every time #bluepithype

#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event @bluepit.bsky.social · Jul 11

It’s Day 4 of #BluePitHype!

Today is ADVICE SHARE day! Share your best advice for pitching, querying for those seeking a literary agent, and promoting your work overall!

We also have our own tips to share for #BluePit!

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comics #TTRPG

#BluePitHype
Q & A
JULY 11th

ADVICE SHARE

Pitch contests can be overwhelming. What’s some of your best advice for #BluePit?

From crafting a pitch, to what to do after the event - we want to hear your thoughts!

2 DAYS To #BLUEPIT ON JULY 13th!

@BLUEPIT.BSKY.SOCIAL

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Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 11

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Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 11

I missed #unhingedpit yesterday but I did it anyway cause it was way too much fun to pass up a historic gothic Erin Brockovich story in SpongeBob Memes 😂😂 #q

Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 11

I missed #unhingedpit yesterday but I did it anyway cause it was way too much fun to pass up a historic gothic Erin Brockovich story in SpongeBob Memes 😂😂 #q

Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 10

#bluepithype #gravewater #amquerying
Character Interview with Elle McIntyre.

If the world were ending, Elle McIntyre would not run. She would stand on the edge of ruin, poring strength into the people she loved until her last breath. Even death would not stop her will.

Her priority would be the care of Jack, the seven-year-old orphan who has become her shadow and her spark. He’s her favorite co-conspirator, her miniature partner in crime, and the force that would set her resolve.

Together with her husband Sayre, Elle would meet the end with fire in her eyes and an unstoppable love in her soul.

Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 10

#bookreview #classiclit

Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 9

#bluepithype #amquerying

It’s a [dark and mysterious]mood 😉🪦💀

In a forgotten desk in a dusty attic, Narcie Fulton discovers something bigger than pests and permit problems hiding in the renovation of Gatewood Manor.

A collage of gothic feeling pictures. A Victorian house, torn letters, a smiling vintage couple, a cemetery

Black and white photo collage. Hands reaching, a court room, a couple kissing, a cemetery gate

Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 9

Great job!!! Be excited when you get the inevitable first rejection, it only means that YOU DID THE THING! Good luck!

Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 8

#bluepithype

I find magic in the little things. My first novel is a historical gothic work. I am a marketing executive and my writing started there, but my passion lies in creating captivating characters and stories that sink into the soul. I am an ADHD mom, marketer, artist and writer.

Image of Raven Youngblood.

Red border. White box. Black text: I find magic in the little things. Sunshine through the trees , smiles of my kids and that incredible old book smell that makes you want to slide across a bookshelf ladder. My first novel is a historical gothic work but I write across many genres. I am a marketing executive and my writing started there, but my passion lies in creating captivating characters and stories that sink into the soul. I am an ADHD mom, marketer, artist and writer. Followed by the website www.ravenyoungblood.com

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Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 7

A moms gotta do what a moms gotta do when the enemy is invading, magic is afoot and the kids are hungry 😉🤣

Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 7

Misery Pit inspired me to rewrite my query and I sent out my first batch last night….

Look what I got this morning!!! #amquerying

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caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · Jul 5

#MiseryPit #A #HM #Q Forty Elephants-meets-Sherlock Holmes in Victorian Scotland with a complex murder mystery set around a set of theatricals.

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Dawn Berkoski @dawnberkoski.bsky.social · Jul 5

Time’s up. The choice is either death or permanent confinement. But a chance meeting offers a ray of hope, a doorway to the freedom Alex and Jason crave. It will pit them against corporate vampires, but the alternative is set in stone.
Paranormal Romance + Fast-paced Thrills. #MiseryPit
#PRT #Q 💙📚📖

Image: A dead-end path in a mold~infested dungeon. One side of the tunnel leads to prison bars; the other leads to darkness. But in the middle of the path, a ray of light shines from an unseen doorway, illuminating the stone floor and showing a possible escape route.

I Am Chosen~ Paranormal Romance with thriller elements.

Photography and story by Dawn Berkoski.

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Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 6

#a #q #miserypit #hm

GRAVEWATER

In the spring of 1919, something sinister is lurking in Loire Valley and Elle McIntyre is pretty sure it has a name and a seat on the city council. Her search for the truth turns deadly and will haunt Gatewood Manor for decades to come.

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Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 5

#a #q #miserypit #hm

She can’t rest until justice is served, he will always answer her terrible haunted call.

GRAVEWATER

An excerpt….

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Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 5

#a #q #miserypit #hm

One woman fights for justice even after her untimely end.

Nearly a century later, another woman discovers the haunting truth she left behind.

GRAVEWATER

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Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 5

Thank you!