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Chantrell
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southern gothic writer | poet | hopeless romantic

self-publication: adajachantrell.substack.com
founder of southern gothic litmag: blackinkocean.bsky.social
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Chantrell @chan-trell.bsky.social · Aug 11
Pretty great group of folks if you ask me🤧
blackinkocean.bsky.social Black Ink Ocean Press @blackinkocean.bsky.social · Aug 11
#subsopen SOUTHERN GOTHIC LITMAG!

In the meantime, meet our lovely staff members:
•A’Daja, Editor-in-Chief
•Brya, Marketing Manager
•Marli, Production Manager
•J’Kobe, Music Strategist
•Anah, Lead Staff Editor
•Ayanna, Breon, Diana, & Ruthann are Staff Editors
A full-bloom lily yellow in the center and a darker reddish pink tint at the edge of the petals, set against a black background. Overlaid in the center with white text that reads:
Meet the Staff BLACK-INK-OCEAN PRESS & MAGAZINE 9 staff images (each in an oval frame) giving mysterious, vampire vibes lined in rows of 3.  A plum red background with burgundy leaf filigree design in the top-right & bottom-left corners. A rectangle box as border.  Pictures from left to right, top to bottom: Anah our Lead Staff Editor. Breon one of our Staff Editors. Diana one of our Staff Editors. Brya our Marketing Manager. A’Daja our Editor-in-Chief. Marlena our Production Manager. Ayanna one of our Staff Editors. J’Kobe our Music Strategist. Ruthann one of our Staff Editors. @ blkinkocn  Faded 2-columned newspaper article—the text unreadable—set as the background. Black text overlaid in the center of the image with a brief description of what the literary magazine stands for. At the top is the brand logo: An ocean of black ink enclosed within a glass bottle with a cork top turned over onto its side. A large, dark mast of a ship battles against the tide. The bottom half of the bottle is missing, instead the title of the magazine “BLACK-INK-OCEAN PRESS & MAGAZINE” (titled “noun” with a phonetic spelling) sits on the underside of the bottle. 3 definitions are provided: 1) Run-of-the-mill southern gothic mag. 2) A collective of writers, readers, and artists with wonderfully mundane stories to tell, brimming just below the surface. 3) A place that wouldn’t exist without daddy’s sweet tooth cravings, momma’s books crowding the living space, and grandma’s banana pudding shared with family come home for the holidays.
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blackinkocean.bsky.social
For southern gothic lovers wanting to be part of a creative team, join BIO staff today🤧 #literarymagazine

Apply online at blackinkocean.com
Darke red job advertisement for Black-Ink-Ocean Press & Magazine, white text. Positions: poetry & prose editors, graphic & web designers, assistant production & assistant marketing managers. Gothic theme, inviting tone “Join our team. We don’t bite…much.” Upper right ink in bottle logo. Stylized illustration of ocean waves and a ship in a bottle. Text includes social media handles @blkinkocn on instagram & TikTok, substack newsletter signup @blackinkocean, and contact email blackinkoceanpress@gmail.com Tone is inviting.
December 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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blackinkocean.bsky.social
If you like vampires, the southern gothic, or have a taste for folklore and history then this is the perfect place to send in your #poetry, #prose, & #art!!!

#writingcommunity #submissionsopen #literarymagazine #vampires #blackinkocean
Close-up image of a forlorn looking woman illuminated in electric blue light that casts dark shadows around her face. Layered on top, the Black-Ink-Ocean literary magazine logo (An ocean of black ink enclosed within a corked, glass bottle toppled over onto its side. A large, white mast of a ship battling against the tide) & white text that outlines the magazine's devotion to the southern gothic genre, the magazine’s focus on vampirism as it relates to the American South, and what lies at the heart of the first issue (a desire to understand oneself and one’s community by both glancing back at the past and looking forward towards the future).  Rearing up the image is a reminder message to send in poetry, prose, & artwork to linktr.ee/blkinkocn
August 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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blackinkocean.bsky.social
🖤REMINDER: Submissions are OPEN for a chance to be published in Issue 0!!!

We want your mesmerizingly mundane stories that hint at something sinister lying beneath the surface & your messy, misshapen characters trying desperately to hide the cracks that peer into their soul. #southerngothic
Grainy black and white portrait of a girl concealed by shadows, a single beam of light casting an intense glow from her forehead and down to her mouth. Her eyes seem hazy and grey, her hair is dark and styled in twists partially pulled back from her face. White text overlays the cover image: What we’re looking for BLACK-INK-OCEAN PRESS & MAGAZINE A newspaper-inspired text block—a headline, tagline, and two columns split down the middle by a single-line divider. Black background and white accents. Headline & tagline read: SUBMISSION GUIDELINES by blackinkocean Body text includes information on the type of content accepted by the literary magazine (an extensive list of poetry, prose, art, and comic strip lengths), the type of content NOT accepted by the litmag (A.I.-generated, stolen, or insensitive work), what the magazine is in search for (southern gothic tales), an overview of the issue themes (vampirism & origin: detailing the ancientness of the vampire and the grandness of the American South and the hope to merge the two), the heart of Issue 0 (which is the desire to understand oneself and one’s community by tracing back to a distant past and simultaneously looking forward towards a near future), and finally, closing on where submitters can find more details on the linktree at: linktr.ee/blkinkocn Showcased as well as the BLACK-INK-OCEAN PRESS & MAGAZINE LOGO: An ocean of black ink enclosed within a glass bottle with a cork top turned over onto its side. A large, white accented mast of a ship battles against the tide. The bottom half of the bottle is unseen.
August 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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blackinkocean.bsky.social
What books (other than the ones we’ve listed) give you major southern gothic, vampy vibes?👀

#submissionsopen #writingcommunity #literarymagazine
Books that pair well with our southern gothic vampire-themed Literary Magazine Issue. There are 6 book covers lined in two rows against a burgundy red background: “This Ravenous Fate” by Hayley Dennings “Dracula” by Bram Stoker “A Gathering of Old Men” by Ernest J. Gaines “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin “Bloodline” by Ernest J. Gaines “Jazz” by Toni Morrison Just below the books is a black ink ocean with white wave lineart, a large black mast drifting in the tide. The litmag title in all caps printed beside it: BLACK-INK-OCEAN PRESS & MAGAZINE 4 book covers split into two columns with text description on how they relate to the southern gothic vampire-themed magazine aesthetic.  “The Ravenous Fate” by Hayley Dennings is about Black vampires in New Orleans which pairs well with the rich cultural and supernatural history of the southern states. “A Gathering of Old Men” by Ernest J. Gaines is another story based in Louisiana and features old men in a plantation setting. Earnest in its intentions and quite nostalgic in its prose, the tale of these Black gentlemen is imbued with a layer of tension and mystery that fits well into the chilling landscape of the southern gothic genre. “Dracula” by Bram Stoker is one I’d be remiss to exclude. A proto-gothic novel about the vampire as we’ve known him and a major inspiration within my own writing. “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin—another Louisiana-based tale—explores my very favorite character archetype. Bordering psychotic, complex female characters who yearn for better lives whilst being trapped within their own bodies and who will often do unthinkable acts to get what they want. 2 book covers split into two columns with text description on how they relate to the southern gothic vampire-themed magazine aesthetic. “Bloodlines” by Ernest J. Gaines was chosen mainly for its title but also you can’t go wrong with Gaines and his devotion to bringing his experience of being born to sharecroppers and growing up in rural Louisiana to life on the printed page. And last but certainly not least is “Jazz” by Toni Morrison—by all time favorite novelist—that captures such grit and depth concerning the birth of jazz and its influence on the Black community. Namely listed here for the character of “Wild” a dark, primitive woman with no family ties who has become a major inspiration for the theme of the first issue—ORIGIN. BELOW THE BOOK LISTINGS is a sea of deep red waves, a glass bottle with a ship trapped inside drifting amongst the foam. In white text:  Submit to our literary magazine! linktr.ee/blkinkocn Accepting poetry, prose, & artwork
August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
chan-trell.bsky.social
Pretty great group of folks if you ask me🤧
blackinkocean.bsky.social Black Ink Ocean Press @blackinkocean.bsky.social · Aug 11
#subsopen SOUTHERN GOTHIC LITMAG!

In the meantime, meet our lovely staff members:
•A’Daja, Editor-in-Chief
•Brya, Marketing Manager
•Marli, Production Manager
•J’Kobe, Music Strategist
•Anah, Lead Staff Editor
•Ayanna, Breon, Diana, & Ruthann are Staff Editors
A full-bloom lily yellow in the center and a darker reddish pink tint at the edge of the petals, set against a black background. Overlaid in the center with white text that reads:
Meet the Staff BLACK-INK-OCEAN PRESS & MAGAZINE 9 staff images (each in an oval frame) giving mysterious, vampire vibes lined in rows of 3.  A plum red background with burgundy leaf filigree design in the top-right & bottom-left corners. A rectangle box as border.  Pictures from left to right, top to bottom: Anah our Lead Staff Editor. Breon one of our Staff Editors. Diana one of our Staff Editors. Brya our Marketing Manager. A’Daja our Editor-in-Chief. Marlena our Production Manager. Ayanna one of our Staff Editors. J’Kobe our Music Strategist. Ruthann one of our Staff Editors. @ blkinkocn  Faded 2-columned newspaper article—the text unreadable—set as the background. Black text overlaid in the center of the image with a brief description of what the literary magazine stands for. At the top is the brand logo: An ocean of black ink enclosed within a glass bottle with a cork top turned over onto its side. A large, dark mast of a ship battles against the tide. The bottom half of the bottle is missing, instead the title of the magazine “BLACK-INK-OCEAN PRESS & MAGAZINE” (titled “noun” with a phonetic spelling) sits on the underside of the bottle. 3 definitions are provided: 1) Run-of-the-mill southern gothic mag. 2) A collective of writers, readers, and artists with wonderfully mundane stories to tell, brimming just below the surface. 3) A place that wouldn’t exist without daddy’s sweet tooth cravings, momma’s books crowding the living space, and grandma’s banana pudding shared with family come home for the holidays.
August 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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blackinkocean.bsky.social
#submissionsopen to be featured in the first edition of Black Ink Ocean Press & Magazine are now open. Click the link in our bio to submit and visit our website. #literarymagazine #litmag #writingcommunity
A faded 2-page newspaper spread lies atop a greyscale sketch art image of a cicada. The newspaper spread includes various images, an assortment of random headline titles, and illegible article columns. Black, upper-cased text is overlaid in the center of the collage that reads: SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN (in regards to the Black-Ink-Ocean literary magazine).  There is a black arrow pointing to the right with text above it that reads: Swipe to see Issue 0 theme and find out how you can be featured A dark red backdrop with pale red filigree design creating a rectangle border. White text in the center reads: ISSUE 0 THEME: Vampirism There is an ancientness to the vampire that I believe connects heavily to the grandness of the American South. There is something to be said of legacy, of living forever, tracing back to one’s origins, and giving birth—rather, name—to something new. Not every story or poem or piece of art has to be ravenous or in seek of wine. BUT, it must get at the heart of the issue: A desire to understand oneself and one’s community by both glancing back at the past and looking forward towards the future. @ blkinkocn A black backdrop with dark grey filigree design creating a rectangle border. White text in the center reads: ISSUE 0 SUB-THEME: Origin Where does love & life & light begin for the southern vampire? Where does it end? Across history legends have persisted of the vampire—creature of darkness with a thirst for blood. As of recently, stories such as Interview with a Vampire, Sinners, and The Ravenous Fate have brought the vampire to root and roam on southern soil, and through this newsmag I intend to keep him here. Tether him to something tangible and accessible to the masses. @ blkinkocn A deep maroon backdrop overlaid with the brand logo: An ocean of black ink enclosed within a glass bottle with a cork-top turned over onto its side. A large, dark mast of a ship battles against the tide. The bottom half of the bottle is missing. The white text below it provides information on the social media accounts and email address for BLACK-INK-OCEAN PRESS & MAGAZINE, reading: Stay in the know, following BIO on social media Instagram & Tiktok @ blkinkocn  Bluesky @ blackinkocean.bsky.social Email blackinkoceanpress@gmail.com We are excited to hear from you! Submissions to be featured in BIO are accepted through Google Forms ONLY! Submissions by DM or Email will not receive a response. We look forward to reviewing your projects, xoxo, BIO
August 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
chan-trell.bsky.social
A SOUTHERN GOTHIC LITERARY MAGAZINE?😳🤧
blackinkocean.bsky.social Black Ink Ocean Press @blackinkocean.bsky.social · Aug 9
Run of the mill southern gothic mag. Meet Black Ink Ocean Press & Magazine. #literary #
August 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
chan-trell.bsky.social
New story idea I’m working on about #blackvampires. I used to love supernatural stories as a kid with vampires and werewolves and such, but as I grew up I convinced myself I couldn’t write in that sphere because I rarely saw people who looked like me in them. That changes now. #writingcommunity
Visual collage of black vampires serving face. Girl with glasses and mess bun. Boy with grey eyes and silver grills on teeth wearing all black. Fangs. Girl and a dog. Blonde hair. Dark ambient lighting. Girl with Afro playing chess. Text on screen with story idea.
June 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
chan-trell.bsky.social
The grim reaper falls in love with the moon. Novel manuscript complete. Currently looking for beta readers. Let me know if you’d be interested!👀 #writingcommunity #betareaders
Black silhouette of a young woman with curly hair peering up at her lover. A grey moon illuminated behind her head, as well as a skeleton hand reaching up towards her cheek. She stands on the left side of a red heart split down the center in a zigzag pattern. Black background with white faces. Digital drawing. Grim Reaper appearing enamored while gazing at his lover, the moon. Dark cloak concealing everything but his face and a skeletal hand. Stands on the right side of a red heart split down the center in a zigzag pattern. Black background with white faces, and a cut off image of his scythe behind him.
May 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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kymdehoney.bsky.social
LA LA LAND🎭 x BOOK LOVERS 📚

Inspired by a scandalous bucket list, ex-best friends revive a long-forgotten dream of writing a musical together, bringing their second chance at love center stage.

#questpit #Q #A #R #agentsguide
May 7, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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mjerkins.bsky.social
ChatGPT removes us from community. Writing can be a very collaborative experience even if the typing is done solo.

I don't know where I'd be if I didn't have writing center fellows or grad students to help me extract what I wanted to say.

That community strengthened my confidence and skill.
May 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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chloemarcus.bsky.social
The Shadows Within

🪨Nerdy rock collector
🌎A society deep in the earth
✨️Dream fueled magic
💀Ancient life-sucking monsters closing in
🙊All tangled around a terrible secret

#ya #fantasy
May 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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judithlwebster.bsky.social
In Cardonia destiny is dealt w/the pull of a card from the Deck of Fates. When Elara draws the Joker—a card that shouldn't exist—she must unlock her powers or lose her head but her only hope lies w/the Prince whose charm hides a rebellion to shatter the kingdom #Questpit #Q #A #F
May 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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jalwrites.bsky.social
Whilst honouring his estranged uncle's dying wish to reunite an iconic group of 1980's drag activists, a young gay man learns the dark truth about his adoptive mother. With her past about to impact his future, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy or the woman who raised him.

#questpit #Con #NA #AG
A fake DVD cover featuring a black and white image of a drag queen smoking. The title EAST END BOYS AND WEST END GIRLS is prominent at the bottom next to a 15 age rating sticker. Along the top are the names Harri Forrester, Wilma Dickfit, Princess Thigh-Ana, Westward Hoe, and Jack Montague.
May 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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yairap.bsky.social
When sheltered Catalina Wesley falls in love with the vampire haunting her dreams, she must decide whether to resist their eternal bond or confront her worst fear, and his greatest desire—death

#W #FR #PR #YA #Questpit
May 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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scarletvmitchell.bsky.social
All depressed Helena wants is fool her therapist long enough to graduate.
When she meets a beautiful woman who claims to be a gargoyle, she is drawn to the magic of another world.

Seeking answers to painful questions, she must face a technicolor hellscape or lose everything.

#QuestPit
#YA #F #Q
Moodboard for Rooted in Stone YA Urban Fantasy "All darkness needs... is protection from the light." Gargoyles extending from a church steeple. A gargoyle spewing rainwater, charcoal drawing of angels wings, a brilliant rainbow sunset over a beach, painted hills, a mermaid’s tail, goth style knee-high buckled boots, the anarchy symbol, crows flying over a misty cathedral spire.
May 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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carosas.bsky.social
SHARP OBJECTS + A STUDY IN DROWNING + COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA

🌨️ grief & sisterhood
✨ forgotten magic
🪻 "memory is a punishment"
🔪 an academy w/ rotten sins
🌊 toxic friendships

#questpit #W #YA #F #OWN
A mood board with an text snippet. The text reads: 'I’m glad I’m the sick one. The one that hears things and sees fading silhouettes. I hope my sister is always happy and never suffers at the hands of her own thoughts like I do.' The mood board features 9 images. A snowy path with a blood trail. A foggy landscape of araucarias. An embordered cloth with the words: 'God loves you. But not enough to save you.' A collection of dark paintings. The front of a castle. A painting of two people kissing. A white silhouette looking as a ghost in the threshold. A painting of someone holding a book. And a hand, drowning in a body of water.
May 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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chloemarcus.bsky.social
🪨Nerdy rock collector
🏰A society deep in the earth
🔮Dream fueled magic
☠️Ancient life-sucking monsters closing in
🤐All tangled around a terrible secret

#ya #fantasy #questpit
May 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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katexmachina.bsky.social
For #QuestPit I'm sharing part of the Agent's Guide for PAINTED FLOWERS NEVER DIE, plus an excerpt from @theblcklst.bsky.social's professional manuscript evaluation, which described the novel as having "strong commercial appeal."

I #AmQuerying this book club-ready spec fic w/ romance.
#Q #A #S #R
A graphic introducing the Agent's Guide for PAINTED FLOWERS NEVER DIE, 90K words, book club ready, speculative fiction. By Katherine Spada. @katexmachina on Bluesky; @kat_ex_machina on Twitter A text graphic with The Pitch for PAINTED FLOWERS NEVER DIE, which reads: Maria and her husband have known fame from a young age, her as a dancer and him as a Grammy-winning music producer. When he dies in a headline-dominating plane crash, Maria spends twenty years unable to wrench her life out of the ashes of grief. Her career stalls as she becomes a celebrity known only for her proximity to tragedy. Until the night her husband’s portrait is debuted at the Art Institute of Chicago. In the midst of drunkenly humiliating herself, Maria sees an apparition that offers her a chance to escape her misery. She chases it through the museum and leaps, piercing the veil of real life and plunging into the worlds beyond the canvas. Believing she can reunite with her husband if she finds his portrait, Maria searches within the museum’s collection, navigating the exciting and often dangerous scenes of well-known paintings, helped and hindered by the figures within them. She encounters others like her, teaming up with Liam, a professor from London with a troubled past, to help save him from being stuck in the paintings forever. Their growing bond opens Maria up to the potential of new love, challenging her goal of reunion with her long-dead husband. As she and Liam explore 19th century Paris, pop art, and Pollock, confronting the past and pursuing a violent art thief, Maria rediscovers the vibrant, empathetic person she was before loss. Ultimately she must decide whether to embrace an unknown future in the real world, or hide behind the painted fantasy of a static existence in her husband’s portrait. A graphic with comp titles that reads: Like THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig, it captures the hopefulness of a woman's journey through different worlds, which forces her to face the question, "What makes life worth living? Fans of V.E. Schwab's THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE will appreciate its elements of romance kindled within fantastical circumstances. There are also cover images for A LOVE SONG FOR RICKI WILDE by Tia Williams, Akira Kurosawa's DREAMS, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, and Lucy Dacus performing "Ankles." A text graphic that reads: The Black List PAINTED FLOWERS NEVER DIE by Katherine Spada Professional Evaluation Excerpt PAINTED FLOWERS provides an interesting perspective on how we memorialize and remember those we've lost, and what moving on means for different people; watching Maria interact with other [crash] victims' loved ones offers some deeply humanizing context. The world of high art is painted with delicious specificity—the posturing, the inflated sense of self-importance! The paintings are magical and exciting, so lush and sensory-driven, especially with the built-in game of trying to identify the paintings before the book itself does. [Spoiler]'s cameo in particular is entertaining yet thematically relevant, without being too in-the-weeds so as to alienate the reader. The prose operates in two modes: more familiar, commercial-leaning women's fiction, and then these detailed, immersive descriptions. This is also illustrative of what the book is doing as a whole: offering a simple, emotional, book club-friendly narrative, and layering magical realism over it. This novel straddles the worlds of contemporary and fantasy fiction in a similar way to Matt Haig's mega-bestseller THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY, or V.E. Schwab's equally popular THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE, though the magic here operates on a smaller scale. Magical realism has been gaining momentum since these comparative novels were published, and PAINTED FLOWERS' unique combination of both adventure novel and character-driven healing novel give it strong commercial appeal.
May 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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maximilliangruff.bsky.social
Phantom Thread x The Last Witch of Scotland

“ In the highlands and in the glens, where the volcanic streams tick with waters yet prime, and the corncrake cries and the air is a Gaelic hymn, where blood was ploughed from a crop of people now peregrine. ”

#questpit #LF #H #Q #OS
May 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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rmsayan.bsky.social
FER SOROLL is an #A #HF #HR novel set in 15th c. Catalonia, with the added challenge of werewolves. To keep the farm animals in town safe, there’s only one man willing and able to spend the night defending them—of course, our love interest :)
#questpit #W #LGBTQ #QueerMF
Excerpt from Fer Soroll, by R. M. Sayan, that reads: “That is one mean-looking dog. You fight that thing?” Manel propped the pitchfork on the ground again. “Not usually. S’ not that strong, but…” He trailed off trying to find the right word, but Vadoma could sort of guess the rest. Vicious? Savage? “Desperate.” Well, she didn’t know if any of that sympathy was deserved, but it occurred to her then that most, if not all, of the wolves they had just fought might be people Manel knew and lived with. End excerpt. Excerpt from Fer Soroll, by R. M. Sayan, that reads: “Wait,” he said, and she almost huffed. There were no werewolves around anymore, hadn’t been for hours, and she could really use a rest now, but she waited anyways. Instead of watching the sun, she watched him, waiting for his signal. The way the gentle morning light caressed his rough features was alluring to watch, and she was glad the wolves were long gone, because right now, she couldn’t have torn her eyes away from him if she wanted to. Then a ray of sunlight peeked over the horizon, announcing the official start to the day, and he turned to look up at her probably for the first time that night, eyes gleaming like honey in this light. “Y’ can come down now. Help me pack up.” End excerpt.
May 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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alizagame.bsky.social
When Leah, the pastor's daughter, goes missing, Brooke doesn't just have to prove foul play was involved — she has to prove to her cult-like church that Leah existed in the first place.
#questpit #ya #querying #LGBT #writingcommunity
May 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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zillawrites.bsky.social
They came for 1 last trip—a nice hotel, some laughs, a chance to bond. When a storm traps them at Hotel Adair bodies pile up. They don’t feel like accidents.
Secrets slip.
Reality warps.
They realize the hotel isn’t just keeping them safe.
🩸It’s keeping them.🩸

#A #H #QuestPit
image of a creepy, old building with an ominous sky and fog. Text overlaid: THE COUPLE IN LOVE. THE ENVIOUS BEST FRIEND. THE TOO-CLOSE FRIEND GROUP. THE INSATIABLE HOTEL. MOST ANTICIPATED HORROR DEBUT. BINGE-ABLE AND PROFANITY-WORTHY. MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR. Final Destination meets The Handyman Method, with the core friendships of Squid Game (s1), in this adult speculative horror where a group of twenty-somethings takes one last trip abroad, only to find themselves trapped in a reality-bending hotel that feeds on their darkest fears and desires. COMING THIS SUMMER. There are random blood splatters under the words.
May 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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thatfunkylilfey.bsky.social
WOLF AMONG US x ONE DARK WINDOW

A college student by day, investigator by night haunted by her brother's ghost. A former high priestess harboring both a relic and the soul trapped within it.

With something stirring beyond the veil, can they save the soul of the city?

[ #questpit ; #W ; #A ; #F]
Collage of Inspiration for arcadia.wip by @thatfunkylilfey Media References: The Wolf Among Us, Baldur's Gate 3, John Wick, One Dark Window, The City We Became Music: Saturn by SZA ; Inbred by Ethel Cain, lyrics included "I'm not scared of God, I'm scared he was gone all along" Text: other worldly beings are closer than you may think ; giant corpse world ; looking half a corpse and half a god ; was she now a goddess or a monster? perhaps neither. perhaps both ; did you come into contact with unknown magical forces ; sinners welcome ; 'academic career, other activities, harm to others" Misc. Images: a hollowed rib cage ; a figure with long white hair, kneeled, hands on the ground, in all white in a black room ; hands faced palm up in red lighting ; modern bridges for foot traffic under an overpass ; a cable car passing between a gap in apartments in Chongqing, China ; a telephone booth lit in blue light ; the barrel of a revolver showing only one bullet ; a figure who's elf ear and white hair are only visible, their skin is purple ; a figure facing away with white hair in an updo and purple skin
May 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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katexmachina.bsky.social
A #QuestPit peek at one of my WIPs… I've been deep in research on my historical romance, but currently #AmWriting a novelization of this pilot inspired by my own career shift from Hollywood to the zoo! ANIMAL INSTINCTS: this rom-com is much simpler and more grounded than my previous novel!

#W #A #R
katexmachina.bsky.social Kat Spada 🖼️ is querying @katexmachina.bsky.social · Mar 19
ANIMAL INSTINCTS: After a red carpet outburst a publicist loses her job and has to build back her reputation through community service & anger management. When she’s assigned to clean up poop at the zoo, she has to get down and dirty, bringing her unique skills to help the animal kingdom. #ScreenPit
A fashionable young woman with a vintage camera does a model pose. In the background, a gorilla appears to give a lecture to visitors at the zoo.
May 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM