37 year old aspiring author from Chicago. Dachshund dad. Music nerd. Nap enthusiast. He/Him
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ALT a 3x3 moodboard top row (left to right): a light shines through a church window onto a man sat on a pew, a white man's back being clawed at by dirty hands. shadowy hands clutching a cross necklace middle row (left to right): a shadow of a man covers the eyes of a young boy, an image of a dead white lamb with the text 'and you'll never be pure again', a young man looking at his crying reflection in a shattered shard of glass bottom row (left to right): a stack of bibles with a gold cross necklace, a man on fire, a man dressed in white kneeling at an altar
ALT a 3x3 moodboard top row (left to right): a pink roasery on a white sheet with pink and yellow roses, two white hands adorned in lace and pealrs holding a cross, a pale woman in a red dress walking through a white meadow middle row (left to right): a young girl dressed in white obscured by shadows, printed text reading 'perhaps i don't deserve nice things cause i am paying for sins i don't remember', a white corset being tied up bottom row (left to right): pressed white and red flowers in a bible, a church on fire, three shadowy wolves stalking through the fog
ALT Louisa paid an island retreat to fix her cheating husband. Now his replacement kisses her goodnight, then goes downstairs to eat him alive. Itβs ordered her replacement next. She must free her husband before she joins him on the feeding table. Adult Horror 79k #QuestPit #Q #A #H
ALT Character art by @demonyong_nini, featuring Simone, her love interest Jadriel, and her cousin Nina, who is a ghost known as The East River Wraith. Book Pitch for THE ONE TO FEAR: Grief-stricken Simone summoned her murdered cousin, but the terrifying girl who returned wasn't Nina anymore. Now sheβs a new urban legend known as The East River Wraith. A furious spirit who drowns deserving boys. Simone should help her find peace, but sheβd rather Nina be a vengeful ghost than lose her again. Except, The Wraithβs going wrathful on the wrong boy. The bi boy next door, who Simone has never feared.
ALT Headline: Haunted & Hexed. Touch him & Burn. Kiss her & Die. The East River Waterfront sign now says East River Wraith. Book Comp images: Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch, The Invocations, Don't Let the Forest In. In a quote box, the first lines of THE ONE TO FEAR: One should never summon the dead. They can always find you. Follow you. Attach themselves to you. With the hashtag # The East River Wraith.
ALT Big 5 Editor and Literary Agent feedback on critiques for The One to Fear. And one from a beta reader: "Nina can do no wrong."
ALT Julian Butcher, Cappacale, cinematographer
ALT Londyn Bridges, Cappacale, dancer, chronically tired.
ALT Agents if you loved...
ALT The strong character arc of Beatrice in Divergent
ALT With tropes of a dying Earth, a ticking clock, self sacrifice, the reluctant hero, and the quest for a cure.
ALT He belongs to the forest. She's meant to die there. Image 1 overlay: framed hunched man. Image 2 overlay: framed woman with her face scratched over. "The Neighbors" repeated in the background.
ALT (1) notes found in the woods I frequently hike. Wrapped in foil, clipped to trees, pinned under leaves, or placed under a small rock. Images of cryptic notes overlayed. (2) Your local hiker-author with the unfortunate knack for finding strange notes and an underlying sleepwalking condition that has led her friends to believe SHE is the one leaving all the notes around central Pennsylvania. Framed image of R. A. Betzer on a wooden footbridge walking away from camera.
ALT The Pitch. "When Raven March moves to Pinehollow, she hopes the quiet woods will help her heal. Instead, she wakes to whispers, shadows between the trees, and warning notes in her own handwriting that she doesnβt remember leaving. Her only solace is Kane Han, her aloof yet ever-present neighbor. Their attraction is instant and volatile, but Kane belongs to the forest, and Raven is beginning to suspect it has plans for her, too." Includes gray runes and a framed image of a couple embracing on a dark background.
ALT Tropes & Vibes. Ripped pieces of paper with the text: cottagegore, New England Appalachia, tragic, romantic in a feral way, folkloric. Includes framed image of a shadowy couple running away holding hands on a dark, woodsy, dirt road.
ALT Title Slide: Title of the book across the top of the slide. The Women of Willow Hill by Samantha Gwyn. Contemporary Romantic Suspense. 70,000+ words. Graphics depicting a podcast.
ALT An Excerpt: The day the mayor went missing was the best day of her life. Not that she had anything against the mayor, besides the skeevy vibe she got from him once a couple of years prior, but Rosalie Foster loved nothing more than a good mystery. And this mystery just so happened to be in her very own town. A town where front-page news was a new stop sign being installed, the dates of the churchβs yearly fish fry, or the one time where some of the farm boys motorized a bar stool and drove it around town.
ALT The Pitch: What started as an amateur investigation into her townβs missing mayor, somehow ended with her ex as her podcast co-host, the book club acting suspicious, the sheriff hiding evidence, a missing best friend and a possible serial killer on the loose. A podcast to die for
ALT Comps and Tropes: Book covers of ACROSS A VANISHING SKY by Catherine Cowles, FIX HER UP by Tessa Bailey, IDENTITY by Nora Roberts and SUITE LIES AND ALIBIS by Kristy Dixon. Tropes mentioned are second chance romance, brotherβs best friend, a ticking clock, a missing person, nicknames and banter and small town gossip.
ALT posters for: The Final Girls, Last Night in Soho, Yellowjackets, and a League of Their Own