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#YA Gothic horromance #readersguide🫀

🦷His life is at stake for biting her
🦇Her life is at stake for surviving
👑All she wanted was to find family, now she has to 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦

🩸Blood is thicker than water... but tastes may vary

#AG: @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social

#QuestPit #H #PR

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@kvyte.bsky.social

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C.C. Foster 👻🫀🔔

@ccfosterwrites.bsky.social

#ReadersGuide to WHAT LIES BETWEEN, my adult gothic fantasy horror retelling of The Tell-Tale Heart. Coming 2027 with @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social 🫀👻

#WritingCommunity #2027Debut #GothicFantasy #AdultFantasy #AdultHorror #AuthorSky #WriterSky #Publishing #BookNews #Bookish

May 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM Everybody can reply

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Arwyn Sherman

@arwyns.bsky.social

WE, THE MISSING is my speculative horror debut coming in May 2026 from @conquestpublishing.bsky.social
Please see #readersguide below 🫀

Four slides: one is girl drawn in highlighter pulling her hood up, the second is "what it feels like" with a list of books and movies like Constantine, angel fall, bad omens, the devil all the time, pretty girls, nothing more, third slide is the pitch with flowers and text "a monster plagued girl who is trying to save her mother, an angel that does not believe in God, the violence that happens when their lives intersect, fourth slide is an excerpt of chapter one.

November 14, 2024 at 6:40 PM Everybody can reply

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el🦋 | drafting🌿

@thatfunkylilfey.bsky.social

a #READERSGUIDE to MOTHLIGHT

— an adult fantasy for fans of ARCANE, JOHN WICK, and SIX OF CROWS

featuring;
🦋 a shapeshifter
🦋 a charming rogue
🦋 revenge + romance
🦋 dual pov

[ #writingcommunity ; #writesky ; #LGBT ; #fantasy ]

A Reader's Guide to MOTHLIGHT by @thatfunkylilfey

Overview

Ever since their sister’s death, Aeramis—a shapeshifter—has been aimless, moving through life in a haze. Then, six months ago while working on a contract for a group of rogues known as the Serpents, they discovered evidence leading them to believe their sister might still be alive. Since then, the shapeshifter has been on their own, following a path they know ends in blood.

When Aeramis’ hunt leads them back to Bastien, the captain of the Serpents and a man willing to break his code for them, the two of them find that their paths may have been entwined from the start, unraveling secrets long since buried in the past.

Contents

NB MC x Trans MMC
Dual POV
Memory Loss
Found Family
Breaking + Entering
Mutual Pining
Eerie Underground Forests
Queer Normative World
Renaissance x Industrial Revolution inspired setting
Revenge
Grief
Identity + Belonging
Shapeshifting as a Metaphor for Gender Identity/Expression

Comps

Arcane: science x magic + morally ambiguous characters
The Cask of Amontillado: questionable conversations over wine + leading men to their deaths (literally)
John Wick: revenge in the name of those you love + revenge as a way to process grief/trauma
Monkey Man: revenge against corrupt leaders + revenge as a way to process grief/trauma
Thornhedge: twists on changeling + foundling lore
Six of Crows: banter + criminal pulling off impossible jobs

June 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM Everybody can reply

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Ann Diament Koffsky

@artbyann.bsky.social

Free reader's guide for Kayla and Kugel's Playful Purim is available on my website. Happy Purim!

#purim #Jewish #readersguide #jewisheducators

March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM Everybody can reply

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Kristen Argyres || Add MY THORNS FOR YOUR ROSES on Goodreads

@kargyres.bsky.social

MY THORNS FOR YOUR ROSES #ReadersGuide

A husband is a required inconvenience to escape Lark's home life, but when a faerie roots a rose in her flesh, rumors abound.

Lark must convince the petty bastard to remove the rose, but the forest is full of danger - & newfound desires.

April 14th, 2026!

A mood board for "My Thorns For Your Roses."

A collage of scenic photos which includes a night sky, a pine forest covered in snow, a bonfire, a stream in a dark wood, a butterfly on a thistle flower, a fox in an autumn wood, the Scottish lowlands, and a shrub of white roses in full blossom.

At the center, a quote is included: "In retrospect, I was right. My future spouse would be so much more than a man."

The COMPS:

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries. The cover depicts whimsical plants with blue flowers and red capped mushrooms and an open book at the bottom.

The caption reads: "Fae will be fae" and "Practical, adult heroine."

For the Wolf. The cover shows a woman clad in a red hooded cloak standing before a white-treed forest with a misty blue between her and the woods.

The caption: "A magical wood that isn't always friendly."

After the Forest. The cover shows a fox mask with auburn hair along with a variety of pinecones, leaves, antlers, a bear and a wolf, and a ginger bread house at the bottom.

The caption reads: "Faerie tale retelling" and "Complicated family dynamics."

Character art for Lark and Tamlin for “My Thorns For Your Roses” by Twitter user nanasuen2650.

Lark has long, tawny hair with decorative braids and a white rose behind her left ear. She is wearing a sand-colored dress with a paneled skirt and leather belt.

Tamlin has long, wavy brown hair decorated with flowers and wears a belted plaid with an intricate leaf design and accessories.

Lark's bullet points include:

Daughter of a famous, retired blacksmith
Oldest daughter syndrome (IYKYK)
Trauma, but not because her family was tragically murdered
Her parents and 4 younger siblings are all still alive!
Wants to get out of this town and needs a man to accomplish her goal
Doesn't believe in faeries for REASONS

Tamlin's bullet points are:

Child of the oldest oak tree in the forest
Faerie Lord of Cairnwood (local forest)
Shapeshifter - plants, animals, objects
Resents being told his kind don't exist
Enjoys messing with Lark
Totally not scared of his cannibal ex

A Snippet from MY THORNS FOR YOUR ROSES

"You shouldn't touch a woman who isn't your wife so casually," I rebuked the man. Our eyes met and we engaged in a battle of wills. My anger versus the spellbinding quality of his stare. My heart raced - furious and exhilarated - bewildered by how the two blended so seamlessly.
"Is that a proposal?"

May 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM Everybody can reply

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Penny Schneider

@pennyschnei.bsky.social

#teachers #librarians #readersguide #parents #Arty

September 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM Everybody can reply

Lee🍄🌈🍉

@leeiswriting.bsky.social

#ReadersGuide to
The Misery of Daughters

🌘 A young mother’s rage is unravelling and so too is her forbidden death magic…

#QuestPit #F #A #W #LGBT #ND

A graphic with dark green and light green mottled background and leafy border. At the top reads: Reader’s Guide. In the centre in large letters reads: The Misery of Daughters. At the bottom reads: Adult Sapphic Fantasy

Amalia’s husband is determined to cleanse her of *taint* but her forbidden death magic is all that keeps her youngest daughter from being consumed by a magic mutating plague. So, when Amalia is forced to follow her husband—newly appointed ambassador—east to the newly independent Oseria, she’s faced with the opportunity to escape. Only, her husband’s cult has eyes everywhere and her children are held on the other side of a conflicted border as incentive; step out of line and face the consequences.

Meanwhile, Nadya, dragon riding illusionist and daughter to the mountain strongholds commander, has returned home to the news of the Magaelian ambassador’s arrival. She doubts their intentions are as pure as they claim, and she’s determined to get to the truth lest betrayal strikes her again. But she was unprepared to find herself in reflected in the cold black eyes of the ambassadors wife. Or caught up in her mystery.

Another graphic with a green mottled background and leaves. Reads: T. Kingfisher's What Moves The Dead
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M.L Wang's The Sword of Kaigen
• Women's Rage
• A Cult
• Generational Trauma
• A mother who'd burn the world
• Light Body & Nature Horror
• A magic Mutating Plague
• God's & Elemental Magic with a twist
• Neurodivergent Rep
• Sapphic Slow Burn
• Dragons & Monsters

Mood board. General vibes: dark, mysterious, deathly, poisonous, rotten. Quote: “do not mistake my silence for kindness.” 9 images left to right, up to down. 1. A dark sheer gown with blue embroidered flowers, and a gloved hand. 2. A spiderweb among the flowers, illumined by a faint moonlight. 3. A white woman’s chest exposed with inky black veins creeping up her neck. 4. Purply-red berries rotting. 5. pale woman’s torso and arms laid among some vines, shes in a sheer white gown thats wet. 6. Dead, dried out and decaying flowers. 7. A woman’s hands holding a dagger against the folds of her gown. 8. Scorched and rotten tree roots. 9. The back of a white woman hugging herself, long black hair slick against her bare pale skin.

February 12, 2025 at 7:39 AM Everybody can reply

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