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megan.m (mostly updates)
@meganwritesya.bsky.social
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Writer. Teacher. In love with books, food, and everyday beauty. 🏳️‍🌈 (She/her). Published in Flame Tree Press's Medusa anthology, Spaceports and Spidersilk, and Working Classicists.

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Everyone is haunted by something. For Jessa, that something is Ivy—her ex-best friend and first love. And she’ll do anything to get Ivy back in her life, even when very real ghosts have other plans for them #PosterPitQ #YA #H
In the center, two hands with matching friendship bracelets do a pinky promise. The photo is ripped down the center and retaped back together, and the hand on the left has been scribbled over in pen. Above the photo, there's a purple border. Black letters read: Readers said and bigger white letters below that read: "Such a novel spin on haunting and toxic obsessive relationships, on queerness and rage and loneliness". Below the photo, black letters read: One way or another, she's going to get her back" underlined with a pen scribble. In big letters, it says "Daggers in Their Smiles" and below that, in smaller letters, Young Adult Found Footage Paranormal Horror
April 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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When ex-best-friends Jessa and Ivy take a summer job at a haunted hotel, they’re at each other’s throats, with mutual friend Teddy stuck in the middle. But if they can’t escape their complicated history, the ghost will claim one of them forever #BluePit 📖 #YA #P #H #Q #LGBT #ND
A mood board with alternating purple and black/white photos. 1. Purple jellyfish on a black background 2. An Afro-latino teen boy in a black turtleneck leaning against a wall. 3. Stalks of lavender 4. A white girl with goth style looking to the lower right hand corner. 5. A neon purple sign that reads find what you love and let it kill you 6. A white girl wearing makeup and a preppy style, smiling at camera 7. The shadow of two hands forming a heart in purple light 8. A black and white hotel hallway 9. Purple candles melting wax
January 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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GUIDE TO THE DARK x RULES FOR VANISHING

Best friends to enemies to ??? sapphic relationship
Found footage-style narration
Haunted hotel in Flagstaff, AZ
Secret society (out to harm or help?)
A ghost out for blood
#BluePit 📖 #YA #P #H #Q #LGBT #ND
A mood board with alternating purple and black/white photos. 1. Purple jellyfish on a black background 2. An Afro-latino teen boy in a black turtleneck leaning against a wall. 3. Stalks of lavender 4. A white girl with goth style looking to the lower right hand corner. 5. A neon purple sign that reads find what you love and let it kill you 6. A white girl wearing makeup and a preppy style, smiling at camera 7. The shadow of two hands forming a heart in purple light 8. A black and white hotel hallway 9. Purple candles melting wax
January 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Three teens. Two weeks in a haunted hotel. One ghost out for blood. And more secrets than they can count buried in their past—ones coming back to haunt them. If they can’t unravel their twisted relationships, they won’t make it out alive #BluePit 📖 #YA #P #H #Q #LGBT #ND
A mood board with alternating purple and black/white photos. 1. Purple jellyfish on a black background 2. An Afro-latino teen boy in a black turtleneck leaning against a wall. 3. Stalks of lavender 4. A white girl with goth style looking to the lower right hand corner. 5. A neon purple sign that reads find what you love and let it kill you 6. A white girl wearing makeup and a preppy style, smiling at camera 7. The shadow of two hands forming a heart in purple light 8. A black and white hotel hallway 9. Purple candles melting wax
January 13, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Daggers in Their Smiles, coming to an agent inbox near you!
Black background with three lit red candles on the left side. White gothic text reads "An Agent's Guide to" and red text that looks like it's dripping reads "Daggers in Their Smiles." Beneath, smaller white lettering in gothic font reads "YA Found Footage-Style Horror" Black background bracketed by images of stacked skulls in red lighting. White text reads "Pitch" in large letters, and in smaller letters, "Jessa and Ivy used to be best friends---and now they hate each other. But when they, along with their friend Teddy, take summer jobs at a haunted hotel, they can't keep themselves from falling back into old habits that could prove just as deadly as the ghost out for their blood." Black background bracketed by images of stacked skulls in red lighting. White text reads in large letters "Comps" and below in smaller text reads "Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall" and "A Guide to the Dark" by Meriam Metoui. Larger text reads "Audience" and smaller text reads "Queer teens, fans of Wendy Heard and Kate Alice Marshall, autistic and ADHD teens, teen girls, people struggling with codependency Black background. On the right, there's a vertical hotel sign in neon red. Larger white text reads "First Lines" and below in smaller text reads, "Everyone's haunted by something--their mistakes, their parents' mistakes, that one time they played Sardines at Casey Cook's birthday party (don't ask), the specter of communism--but very few people are haunted by actual, real live ghosts. Well, not live ghosts. That defeats the point of a ghost, doesn't it?"
December 1, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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I might be finishing the first draft of my new project this week 👀
White text on a black background. Next to the text is a neon red hotel sign. The text reads: Everyone's haunted by something- their mistakes, their parents' mistakes, that one time they played Sardines at Casey Cook's birthday party (don't ask), the specter of communism- but very few people are haunted by actual, real live ghosts. Well, not live ghosts, that defeats the point of a ghost, doesn't it?
June 16, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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My newest short story, "A Little Lavender Magic," has been published in Spaceports and Spidersilk's Feb 2024 issue!

If you're a fan of botanical magic, queer middle school emotional angst, and froggy familiars, my newsletter has a teaser snippet and links to the website 💜
Four images, each using a purple color scheme. Image one is a purple candle, lit, on a wooden table with a bowl of purple salts beside it and some sprigs of lavender. Image two is purple crystals inside a corked bottle on moss. Image three is a book with dyed purple pages on grass. The last image is an illustrated apothecary with lots of plants, flowers and natural light. Over these is a scrap of paper that reads: How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard--- A.A. Milne
March 11, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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Just spent some Barnes and Noble giftcards on two of my favorite reads from the last year 🌈📚

🏳️‍🌈 Support queer authors all year long! 🏳️‍🌈 #kidlit
Copies of Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White and The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes
July 29, 2023 at 10:43 PM
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Just hit 10k on my Ghost WIP! 🥳

It's a queer neurodivergent social horror with elements of prisoner's dilemma 👻 Aesthetic included below!
Nine image grid. Main color palette is white, gold and red. 1. An elevator in a hotel lobby. 2. Hands bound together by red thread 3. An Afro-Latino boy leaning against a wall, arms folded, wearing a gold chain over a black turtleneck. 4. Mantel decorations, including a mirror with a warped reflection. 5. A white girl with blonde hair looking away from the camera. 6. A greek bust with ivy bursting out. 7. A white girl with red hair wearing all black. Posture is rigid and eyes are white. 8. Sorry written in messy red letters. 9. A high ceiling building with light coming down from the skylight
July 18, 2023 at 11:07 PM