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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · Sep 23

Editors, don't sleep on this. Pun intended.
This vacation is going from sleepy to creepy.
🌊 foggy seaside town
⛵️ legend about a ghost girl from a shipwreck
💰 missing treasure
🐦‍⬛ all the crows
🏚 weird old mansion with an eerie past
#UnhingedPit #MG #OS #AG #H #gothic #spooky

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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · Sep 23

Move over Hallmark
The Christmas season was originally a time for calling back the dead. So, let's give that a go.
🎄dual timeline
🎄haunted house
🎄grief
🎄the past bleeding into the present
🎄dead bodies
🎄snowy frozen world
🎄 gothic
#A #H #AG #CS #unhingedpit

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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · May 28

Anyone else get so engrossed in writing they do randomly stupid things?
I grabbed my electric kettle to make tea, filled it with water, and put it on my gas burner.
Reader: electric kettles DO NOT GO ON GAS BURNERS.
Sidenote: it went up in flames immediately

#amwriting #writingcommunity

a stove with flames coming out of it and the words " well done " above it

ALT: a stove with flames coming out of it and the words " well done " above it

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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · May 6

Was just posting over on Instagram with the #2026debuts and accidentally typed #3036debuts and if that isn't a publishing mood...🤣

#amwriting #writingcommunity

an older woman is crying and says it 's been 84 years

ALT: an older woman is crying and says it 's been 84 years

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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · Mar 17

Love me some gothic goodness

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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · Mar 17

Happy St. Patrick's day! I love a good pitch event. Who's throwing their beautiful work out into the wilds, today?
#luckypit #popuppit #writingcommunity

Pop Up Pit @popuppit.bsky.social · Mar 16

🍀 POP UP PIT IS BACK! 🍀

Join us from 8am-8pm EDT tomorrow for #LuckyPit! Moodboards are welcome— remember to use alt text!

How to participate:
-3 pitches per project
-tag #LuckyPit & #PopUpPit
-post between 8am & 8pm!

The event will also be held on bsky 🙂‍↕️ Good luck!

An informational graphic with a green background and imagery of four leaf clovers. The text reads “Luck is in the air” “test your luck during PopUpPit’s LUCKYPIT on March 17th!” “we ask that all entries are completed and query ready per our new rules”

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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · Mar 6

This magical and mysterious middle grade story features a creepy Dollhouse in an old attic! Right up my alley on this spooky middle grade binge I'm on.
#amreading #booksky

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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · Mar 4

I'm soooo excited. The wait feels like forever haha

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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · Mar 4

Eelgrass is still in my lineup👀
I am so looking forward to it.

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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · Mar 4

This was a beautifully dark and strange book! Love spooky middle grade!
#amreading #booksky

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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · Feb 13

This is screaming vibes for my adult WIP.
#amwriting

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This is Allyween @allymalinenko.bsky.social · Feb 12

HERE IT IS! BROKEN DOLLS COMING SEPTEMBER 2025
That quote had me in literal tears. Share and you're in the drawing for copies of all three books.

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Manuscript Wish List® @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social · Jan 16

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our First Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 12, 2025. 🎉🎉🎉

Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.

Learn more here: manuscriptwishlist.com/the-next-off...

The Next Official #MSWL Day: February 12, 2025 – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website

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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · Jan 15

Haha thanks! It's more of a WHY CAN'T EVERYONE WHO LIVES HERE GO AWAY AND STOP NEEDING ME

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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · Jan 15

Me, rewriting this ending.

a fluffy cat is sitting on a wooden table with the words `` help '' written on it .

ALT: a fluffy cat is sitting on a wooden table with the words `` help '' written on it .

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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · Dec 29

Spent all day working on book edits and realized my whole personality revolves around the trope DO NOT GO INTO THE FORBIDDEN WOODS.
So what's your favorite trope?
#amwriting #writingcommunity

a silhouette of a woman in a dark forest .

ALT: a silhouette of a woman in a dark forest .

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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · Dec 23

Please observe this cute doggie in my living room.

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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · Dec 22

Haha yes!

Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · Dec 21

I love how my edit letter for my sold book dropped right after I wrote this🤣
Apparently I am changing course for a bit.

Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · Dec 19

I love that feeling I get when I start writing something new and I just can't wait to get back at it all the time because my whole brain is living in that world rather than the real one🤣
#amwriting #writingcommunity

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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · Dec 21

I feel this. I also get people like this at the library. Especially had it years ago when waitressing.

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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · Dec 20

25k into this gothic christmas ghost story calls for an aesthetic, particularly when it's seasonally appropriate.

#amwriting #writingcommunity

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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · Dec 19

Congratulations!!

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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · Dec 19

I love that feeling I get when I start writing something new and I just can't wait to get back at it all the time because my whole brain is living in that world rather than the real one🤣
#amwriting #writingcommunity

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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · Dec 19

🥰🥰

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Sarah Van Goethem @sairdysue.bsky.social · Dec 19

Oh my gosh I lived to see the yes votes in other years. So fun!
Good luck everyone!
I've longlisted for this award previously (and not listed other years) but now I have a book deal.
Whatever happens, don't give up!

#BCNA2024 #writingcommunity

The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · Dec 19

🐈‍⬛Good luck to all #BCNA2024 entrants for tomorrow's longlist, which will be notified by email by 19:00 GMT.

The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · Dec 1

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