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Frances Hope
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East Coast writer, West Coast roots / thriller - horror - mystery / stories: https://linktr.ee/frances_hope / rep: Claire Friedman @ InkWell
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Frances Hope @franceshope.bsky.social · Nov 7
It's a good day for switching to here from there. Even if it's a bad day in almost all other regards.

I write horror (and some other stuff, but let's just go with the operative word for now).

Where is my #WritingCommunity? Stay safe today, strong tomorrow. 😪
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So pleased to share that my speculative microfiction piece "Come Home" has found *its* home at Crepuscular Magazine!
crepuscularmag.bsky.social Crepuscular Magazine @crepuscularmag.bsky.social · Oct 13
Crepuscular welcomes Frances Hope! "Come Home" is free to Patrons today. Watch for it 11/13 or join us on the Patreon for full access!
white woman with dark hair smiles at the camera. Frances Hope Crepuscular Welcomes
October 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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"Pan's Gaze" by Chris Clemens is free to read today!

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August 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Today in "Why Do I Do This to Myself?": making the murder victim in my new book a "fiancée," which means I have to use the $^#&@%& accent symbol the whole time or be driven editorially insane!

#writingcommunity #formercopyeditor #why
August 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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When thoughts turn to Spring and also to writing a book that is intensely unsettling but in a good way
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April 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Being a writer and a parent is just continually being Robin Williams in the big restaurant scene from Mrs. Doubtfire.
April 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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At that phase of my "writing journey" where I want publishing podcasts on an IV drip . . .
#WritingCommunity
April 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Fine, I'll admit it! I love beta reading because it makes me feel fancy and important.

There, I said it!
April 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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It looks like I've gotten lots of new followers lately, so I'll (re)introduce myself!

I'm an agented thriller/horror author who writes "science gone wrong" stories with messy relationships at their core. 🧵 (1/3?)
April 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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I keep meaning to post writing stuff on here because, uh, "building my brand" or something. . . . But now all I can think about is Cory Booker.
April 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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BREAKING: Sen. Booker breaks record for longest Senate speech in history.

WATCH LIVE NOW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Nf...
April 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Anyone who spends time with me in person knows that 50% of my casual wardrobe is band T-shirts (Mountain Goats, Indigo Girls . . .). Conveniently, just as these tired, years-old threads are starting to fall apart in the wash, both bands are going on tour near me this summer. Thanks, merch gods!
March 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Voted for Trump, now have buyer’s remorse? The Trump philosophy seems to be his version of FAFO. Don’t buy anything on the 28th unless you absolutely have to.
#Resist
February 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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STATION ELEVEN x post-covid WALKING DEAD

Far-right extremist zombies, a hot dentist, and a love triangle take on the end of the world in the Black Hills.

Bites, bisexuals, and a busted bunker, oh my!

🧟 🏳️‍🌈 🔪 🩸 🔥 🫶🏻

#questpit #NA #horror
Background of Mount Rushmore. Third President has been replaced with zombie head. Semi-transparent red Blood splatter across the entire image
February 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Sometimes I think about Stephen King's "The Jaunt" just to upset myself, before promptly suppressing the memory of it again. What's *your* emotional masochism literature?
February 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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You know that thing where it's winter and you have lots of little cuts on your hands because of exposure to cold outside and dry radiator heat inside, but the act of opening Band-Aid wrappers actually makes the cuts worse so you need more Band-Aids? Didn't Robert Frost write a poem about that?
January 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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booking update: i have one last website and branding design spot for the first half of 2025 available!
January 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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I don't really follow sports. I get my exhilaration from finding out my writer friends got full requests.
January 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Definitely an interesting listen, especially for those of us in the #writingcommunity who want to sell books but aren't loving the social media landscape!
printrunpodcast.bsky.social PRINT RUN @printrunpodcast.bsky.social · Jan 17
***NEW EPISODE***

We go long on what the deterioration (or banning) of social media platforms could mean for the discussion, promotion and selling of books, and offer a vision of how best to rebuild literary culture in a way that won't need The Algorithm

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Episode 172—The End of the Social Media Marketing Era
This week we talk about the functional death of social media as a promotional tool in the publishing industry. Now that we all agree that these platforms are actively corrosive to not only our body po
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January 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Here’s a recent personal illustration of mine - a young witch doing some cozy spell casting before bed. #witchart
January 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Same pitch, revised MS! I queried too early. So if you've seen this before, agents, why not take another look? She's sweet, spooky, and telenovela style dramatic.

😘

#P2Ppit #a #q #secondchances
cotexican.bsky.social 💀Chris💀 @cotexican.bsky.social · Jan 17
Galveston Island, 1900: A Mexican-American woman’s marriage reveals cultural liminality and secrets within a haunted villa as the deadliest hurricane in US history threatens to destroy everything. Agent Guide below!
#P2Ppit #UW #A #gothicromance #Latinx
January 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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A southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become.
#P2Ppit #Q #YA #H #T #LGBT
A moodboard collage of green and grey images with an earthy, spooky vibe. There's a white woman with moths on her face, a deer skull emerging from the bushes, a black fist strangled with vines, white pills in a pile, images from trailer parks, a copperhead, and a sign saying "No More Overdose Deaths"
January 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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STATION ELEVEN x post-covid WALKING DEAD

Far-right extremist zombies, a hot dentist, and a love triangle take on the end of the world in the Black Hills.

Bites, bisexuals, and a busted bunker, oh my!

🧟 🏳️‍🌈 🔪 🩸 🔥 🫶🏻

#P2Ppit #NA #H
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January 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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I'm so beyond excited to share that I've signed with Claire Friedman at InkWell Management! She totally gets what I'm trying to do with my freaky thriller, and I can't wait to dive into all the hard work that comes next!
January 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Um, why isn't this on my shelf right now!?!?
rammwriter.bsky.social Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · Jan 13
Slow Horses x Dark Matter

Turns out there's more to The Cold War than nuclear supremacy. It's a race to develop time travel technology, espionage is the name of the game, and nobody’s playing fair.

#Q #A #T #SF #BluePit 📖 #agentguide #amquerying
There is a dull green background with lines of code running down it. A man's head and shoulders are in silhouette against the lines of code. The text is in courier font and all capitalised. It reads: An agent's guide to: Out of Time By Gert Ramm Espionage/time travel thriller (113K) There is a dull green background with lines of code running down it. A man's head and shoulders are in silhouette against the lines of code. The text is in courier font and all capitalised. To the left of the man's head it reads: 1972: an MI5 officer discovers a secret Cold War agenda - to develop time travel technology. After a failed British experiment creates an unstable time vortex, he must enter and find a way to disable it, before it's weaponised for temporal warfare. Except the government blames him for the disaster, and ruthless hunters are closing in. The text to the right of the man's head reads: Pitch: Slow Horses... With Time Travel In the bottom right-hand corner is the image of a long-barrel revolver. There is a dull green background with lines of code running down it. A man's head and shoulders are in silhouette against the lines of code. The text is all capitalised and in courier font. The text to the left of the man's head reads: Comps: Slough House Series (Mick Herron) Here and Now and Then (Mike Chen) Dark Matter (Blake Crouch) The Anubis Gates (Tim Powers) The text to the right of the man's head reads: TV Comps: The Ipress File Day of the Jackal Life on Mars Callan In the bottom right-hand corner is an image of an old-fashioned 35mm camera with a roll of film and the box that contained the film. There is a dull green background with lines of code running down it. A man's head and shoulders are in silhouette against the lines of code. The text is all capitalised and in courier font. The text in the left-hand panel reads: Themes: Loyalty Betrayal Sacrifice Balance of Power Trust The text in the right-hand panel reads: First Page: Friede couldn't be in his head. Not now. Distractions led to mistakes. A mistake tonight would be disastrous. Edmund Fletcher forced himself to focus as he padded silently through the disused sewer. His penlight illuminated a narrow arched tunnel, though he'd used this subterranean labyrinth so often he could have navigated it in darkness. He shivered, quickening his pace; it was always cold so far below ground, heavy snow in the streets above had lowered the temperature further. He was directly below the wall now. A hundred feet ahead was Soviet territory. While he held Russian and GDR security in the highest esteem, after three years in the business it wasn’t hard to stay ahead of them. He took nothing for granted though; complacency was a killer. Twelve frames run along the bottom of the page - they are the negative images on a roll of 35mm film.
January 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM